[The Husainabad Imambara, Lucknow.] Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking across the garden towards the Husainabad Imambara or Palace of Lights, erected by Muhammad Ali Shah in 1837.
No. 16. Top of the Palace of the King in the Kaiser Bagh [sic. for Kaiser Pasand], Lucknow. View taken from the top of a three storey house. Photographer: Tytler, Robert and Harriet
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Caption note continues: ' The Palace, about six stories high, the dome on the left purposely cut in two, has the royal arms engraved in gold on it'. The view in fact shows a view of the top storey and domes surmounting the Kaiser Pasand, near the Kaiserbagh but ...
No. 15. Right mosque, in the garden of the Cha[page torn] showing the Jumma Musjid (or ch[urch in the] religion of the place) at Lucknow. [Taj replica in the courtyard of the Husainabad Imambara, with the Jami Masjid in the background, Lucknow]. Photographer: Tytler, Robert and Harriet
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography The first word missing in the original caption ('Cha...') probably indicates an incorrect identification of the building as the Chattar Manzil. Size: 482 (w) x 367 (h) mm. Subjects = Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Islamic); tombs
No. 18. The Residency at Lucknow. The square tower on the right slightly in view is the one in which Lawrence was wounded. Photographer: Tytler, Robert and Harriet
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the ruins of the Residency. Size: 522 (w) x 372 (h) mm. Subjects = British colonial architecture; European architecture in India; residencies
No. 19. Lawrence and Neil's tomb Lucknow. Photographer: Tytler, Robert and Harriet
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View in the Residency Graveyard, the tomb of General Neill (and others) at the left, Sir Henry Lawrence's at the right. See Photo 96/1 (12) for a view from a similar viewpoint taken a decade or so later. Subjects = cemeteries; tombs
[La Martinière, Lucknow.] Photographer: Tytler, Robert and Harriet
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of La Martinière (Constantia), with the lake and the tall fluted column built by J.P. Parker in the foreground. Subjects = country houses; education; European architecture in India; French colonial architecture; palaces; schools
