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Reference (shelfmark):: 010056.i.4(19)
Title:: Memorial of massacre of European captives [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the memorial, 'a very modest unpretending looking obelisk.'
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1874
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010056.i.4(2)
Title:: General Havelock's Tomb [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the obelisk in the grounds of the Alum Bagh (see print 1). Havelock died of dysentery at the Dilkusha Palace (see print 5) in Lucknow on 24 November 1857, after relieving the city in September.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1874
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010056.i.4(28)
Title:: Niel's [sic for Neill's] Gate [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the arched gateway, the Sher Darwaza, the site of the death of Brigadier General James Neill in September 1857. The gateway was preserved as a memorial and became better known to the British as Neill's Gateway. Abbas Ali comments: 'To mark the sp...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1874
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010056.i.4(6)
Title:: La Martinière [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the lake towards the palace (also known as Constantia) built by General Claude Martin, with the column standing in the lake in the foreground. The French adventurer Claude Martin was in service with the King of Oudh, and is buried in the basem...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1874
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 74/559*g.21(13)
Title:: Monuments funéraires [Funerary stele with hieroglyphic inscriptions excavated at Abydos, in the Bulaq Museum, Cairo.] Photographer: Délié et Béchard
Scope & Content:: Genre: Archaeological Photography Close view of stele.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 74/559*g.21(28)
Title:: Monuments historiques [Inscribed stone stele in the Bulaq Museum, Cairo.] Photographer: Délié et Béchard
Scope & Content:: Genre: Archaeological Photography Close view of stele, with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 74/559*g.21(32)
Title:: Monuments historiques [Inscribed stele from Karnak in the Bulaq Museum, Cairo.] Photographer: Délié et Béchard
Scope & Content:: Genre: Archaeological Photography Close view of stele with hieroglyphic inscription.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 74/559*g.21(37)
Title:: Monuments historiques [Group of miscellaneous objects in the Bulaq Museum, Cairo.] Photographer: Délié et Béchard
Scope & Content:: Genre: Archaeological Photography Arrangement of a large and miscellaneous collection of objects, including inscribed stele, small portrait busts, vases, seals and axes.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 74/Cup.652.m.2, 1(30)
Title:: Louksor (Thèbes). Construction antérieure — Pylône, colosses et obélisque [Foremost structures, the pylon, colossi and obelisk, Luxor]. Photographer: Teynard, Félix
Scope & Content:: Genre: Archaeological Photography View from the north of the pylon of Rameses II, with the two half-buried colossi flanking the gateway of the Temple of Amun-Kamutef and remaining obelisk of the pair, on the left. The second obelisk was given to the French by Muhammad Ali in 1819 and now stands...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1851-1852
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 74/Cup.652.m.2, 1(40)
Title:: Gournah (Thèbes). Colosses (celui de droite, dit de Memnon) [The Colossi (the one on the right known as the Colossus of Memnon), Qurna]. Photographer: Teynard, Félix
Scope & Content:: Genre: Archaeological Photography General view of the two seated colossi, sandstone representations of Amenhotep III, with the hills to the north in the background. The northern statue, on the right, was also known as the 'vocal Memnon,' for the reason explained by Teynard in his accompanying n...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1851-1852
Extent:: 1 item

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