[The Husainabad Imambara, Lucknow.] Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking across the garden towards the Husainabad Imambara or Palace of Lights, erected by Muhammad Ali Shah in 1837.
[La Martinière, Lucknow.] Photographer: Tytler, Robert and Harriet
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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
No. 8. Ruins near Delhi. Photographer: Tytler, Robert and Harriet
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the Iron Pillar in the courtyard of the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque at the Qutb, framed by the arch of the Alai Darwaza. Subjects = architectural elements; gateways; Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Islamic); lats; mosques Location = Delhi; Delhi...
No.3. Skinner's Church, Delhi. Photographer: Tytler, Robert and Harriet
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of St James's Church, known as Skinner's Church after Col James Skinner, who commissioned the building. Designed by Maj Robert Smith, it was built between 1826–36, with a cruciform plan, three porticoed porches and a central octagonal dome. Duplicat...
No. 19. Lawrence and Neil's tomb Lucknow. Photographer: Tytler, Robert and Harriet
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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
No. 12. Temple of Gaaraa Nanule [sic for Guru Ram Rai], Dhera [Dun]. Photographer: Tytler, Robert and Harriet
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Genre: Architectural Photography Caption note continues: 'Those who worship in this temple profess a religion between the Mohammedan and Hindoo and composed of Sikhs. Except one of their own sect no person ever had access within the temple until the mutiny. Gaaraa Nanule was the founder of the ...
No. 6. Mosque on ridge of Delhi, held by the mutineers, our batteries were in the foreground appear now to be levelled. Photographer: Tytler, Robert and Harriet
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the mosque, showing evidence of bombardment. Part of the caption may be missing, and last section should perhaps give the sense of '...in the foreground where the ground appears now to be levelled'. Duplicate of Photo 193 (6). Subjects = Indian...
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
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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