The Memorial Well, Cawnpore. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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View looking across the park towards the gothic screen enclosing Marochetti's sculpture (see print 44) over the memorial well at Cawnpore (Kanpur). With three Indian figures posed among the young trees in the foreground.
Ruins of the Residency and Bailey [Bailllie] Guard, Lucknow. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Distant view, looking towards the ruins of the Residency and the Baillie Guard Gate at Lucknow, with two bullock carts standing on the open ground in the foreground.
Carved pillars in the Panch Mahal, Futtypore Sikree. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Photograph of the Panch Mahal in Fathepur Sikri, taken by Samuel Bourne in the 1860s. The palace city of Fatehpur Sikri was built by the Mughal Emperor Akbar (r.1556-1605) from 1571 to 1585. The entire complex is built of locally quarried red sandstone, known as Sikri sandstone. The Panch Mahal ...