Subject: Architecture - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: 010056.i.4(21)
Title:: Noorbaksh ki Kothe or Light giving house [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view from the driveway, looking towards the two-storey stone Nur Bakhsh Kothi, 'so named because, when illuminated, from its great height it lighted up the neighbourhood for miles around: it was built by Newab Saadut Ali Khan and became the residence of ...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1874
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010056.i.4(22)
Title:: Gate of Kaiser Bagh [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the entrance gateway and flanking façades of the Kaiserbagh, 'or the famous palace of the ex-King, Wajid Ali Shah Sultan-a-Aulum. This great palace was commenced by the ex-King in the year 1850, and, in his wild ambition to have a palace of ...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1874
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010056.i.4(23)
Title:: Lunka in the Kaiser Bagh [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of this most peculiar building, consisting of two ranges, each with four octagonal corner towers, linked by a central bridge; described in Rosie Llewellyn-Jones (ed), 'Lucknow city of illusion,' Prestel, 2006, p. 60): 'Several of the structures in t...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1874
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010056.i.4(24)
Title:: Bara-duree of Kaiser Bagh [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of one of the single-storied pavilions in the Kaiserbagh enclosure.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1874
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010056.i.4(25)
Title:: Saadut Ali Khan's Tomb [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the domed tomb.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1874
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010056.i.4(26)
Title:: Moorshud Zadi's Tomb [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the domed tomb of Begum Khurshid Zadi.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1874
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010056.i.4(27)
Title:: Kaiser Pussund [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view from the driveway of the main façade of the Roshan-ud-daula Kothi, later renamed the Kaiser Pasand (Qaiserpasand), built 1827-37 and partially extant: 'The house of 'Caesar's pleasure.' This fantastic building belonged to Roshun-ood-dowlah, King Nas...
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(3)
Title:: Bebeapore ki Kothe [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View of the main façade of the building, a two-storey structure in European classical style: 'At a spot, a few miles eastward of the city, stand the ruins of the old palace of Bebeapore. Newab Ausuf-ood-dowlah, the first of the Newabs who made Lucknow the capita...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1874
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010056.i.4(30)
Title:: Chutter Munzil on brink of the Goomtee [Lucknow] Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the River Gumti towards the river façade of the Bara Chattar Manzil (Great Parasol Palace), the main building of the Chattar Manzil complex, which 'consists of a number of very handsome, lofty buildings, the chief of which is imposingly situa...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1874
Extent:: 1 item

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