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Photo 4(1)

Record Id:

040-003037826

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003037825

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100035590171.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 4(1)

Title:

Proclamation of Empress of India, Delhi, January 1877. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd

Scope & Content:

Genre: Historical Events

General view of the assemblage, with crowds of spectators in the foreground. Contemporary notes on the mount beneath the print identify the amphitheatre for Europeans (at left), Lord Lytton's canopy (centre: the Viceroy can just be made out seated beneath the canopy), and the amphitheatre for native princes (right). An effusive and facetious poem in manuscript on the reverse of the mount celebrates the durbar at which Lord Lytton proclaimed Queen Victoria's new status as Empress of India ('Be an Empress! was 'Dizzy's'/advice to his Missus...'). For fuller details, see J. Talboys Wheeler, 'The history of the Imperial Assemblage at Delhi' (London, [1877]). Second copy neg at B.22356. For a similar view, taken on the same occasion, see Photo 430/80 (15).

Subjects = canopies; ceremonial decorations; durbars; official events

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003037825
040-003037826

Is part of:

Photo 4 : Two loose mounted prints showing the Imperial Assemblage at Delhi of 1877 and a portrait group of Sir William Muir and staff.…

Photo 4(1) : Proclamation of Empress of India, Delhi, January 1877. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd

Hierarchy:

032-003037825[0001]/040-003037826

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 4

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

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Not applicable

Techniques:

Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print

Start Date:

1877

End Date:

1877

Date Range:

1 Jan 1877

Era:

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