Language: Not applicable / Subject: Indian Uprising or Mutiny, 1857-58 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 591(3)
Title:: Memorial Well, Cawnpore, in the Seige of 1857. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Historical Events Copy of a painting of the well. Subjects = paintings and drawings
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 615(9)
Title:: The entrance to Darjeeling. My pony is standing on the road which during the panics was defended by [?] fortifications thrown up to defend it, you see the gabions to the right centre. In front is a steep high barren mountain. This is a bad print. Photographer: James, Henry Curry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = fortifications; hill stations
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1858
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 615(26)
Title:: The entrance to Darjeeling with the "defences" which were thrown up to prevent an attack from the mutinous sepoys. This is not a good picture but I thought it would give you some idea of the place. You see my pony again on the road. Photographer: James, Henry Curry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = fortifications; hill stations
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1858
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 615(31)
Title:: Kowar Sing the Arrah rebel. The man who so nearly destroyed all the English inhabitants of Arrah. He used to come and sit with me in my tent for hours when I was travelling with the Lt Govr and it was during one of these interviews that I took this[?]. Photographer: James, Henry Curry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Caption continues: 'The old villian! He did nothing but protest to me that he was the most faithful ally the British were ever likely to have'. Subjects = Indian office holders; minor chiefs
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1858
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 647(3)
Title:: Shah Najaf, Lucknow, 1858. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Duplicate of Photo 499 (45). This is a copy of number 15 in H. Hering's list of Photographic views and panoramas taken by Signor F. Beato. See Introduction to Photo 499 for notes on the negatives. Subjects = Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Islamic);...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1858
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 647(5)
Title:: La Martiniere, Lucknow, 1857. Braisier's [Ferozepore] Sikhs in the foreground. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography This is a copy of number 4 or 6 in H. Hering's list of Photographic views and panoramas taken by Signor F. Beato. Brasyer's Sikhs or the Regiment of Ferozepore were under the command of Lieut Jeramiah Brasyer . Subjects = 14th (King George's Own) Ferozepore S...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1858
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 647(7)
Title:: Neill's Gate, Lucknow, 1858. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:: Genre: Historical Events View shows a gateway and courtyard with the tomb of Saadat Ali Khan in the distance. A duplicate of this print at Photo 499 (2) is numbered 'L21' in the negative which probably corresponds to number 21 in H. Hering's list of Beato views: 'A Gateway leading into the Kais...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1858
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 647(8)
Title:: Church-yard and Residency in the distance, Lucknow, 1858. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography This is a copy of number 40 in H. Hering's list of Photographic views and panoramas taken by Signor F. Beato. Subjects = British colonial architecture; European architecture in India; residencies
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1858
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 666(1)
Title:: Modern copy prints of Mutineers being hanged. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:: Six modern copy prints from an original in the Hulton Picture Library. Copyright owned by Hulton Picture Library.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1858
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 752/4(8)
Title:: Lucknow during Mutiny. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:: Genre: Historical Events Duplicate of Photo 254/1 (46), there captioned 'Machi Bawan (Imambara)'. Subjects = Macnabb Collection
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1858
Extent:: 1 item

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