[Rose Aylmer's Tomb, South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta.] Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
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Genre: Architectural Photography Obelisk with spiral fluting and garland. This photograph shows the tomb newly-restored (probably at Lord Curzon's instigation). Subjects = British colonial architecture; cemeteries; Curzon Collection; European architecture in India; tombs
[Rose Aylmer's Tomb, South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta.] Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close-up of plaques on the base of the obelisk bearing the main memorial inscription and Walter Savage Landor's celebrated commemorative verse ('Ah, what avails the sceptred race...') on the plaque beneath. Subjects = British colonial architecture; cemeteries;...
Portrait of Kitty Fisher as Cleopatra (from the original by Sir Joshua Reynolds). Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Photographic copy of half-length portrait. Pencilled caption on reverse of mount continues: '...now in possession of Mrs Rowe (daughter of John Clark Marshman C.S.I.) to whom it was bequeathed by her mother. It is believed by the Marshman family to be the portrait of...
Interior of amphitheatre with Duke & Duchess of Connaught & Lord & Lady Curzon inside [Delhi Durbar]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events View looking out from amphitheatre towards military review in progress. Subjects = Curzon Collection; durbars; official events
[Unidentified official function, possibly the unveiling of the Curzon Statue, Calcutta..] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Showing officials greeting Baron Carmichael of Skirling, Governor of Bengal, who has just alighted from a landau. To his left, in profile, stands Bijai Chand Mahtab, Maharaja of Burdwan Raj. This view may well have been taken before the unveiling of the Curzon statue in...
Margot & her Elizabeth 1899. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography Studio portrait of Emma Alice Margaret, 2nd wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, with her daughter Elizabeth Bibesco. Subjects = Curzon Collection