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010056.i.4(5)

Record Id:

040-003235101

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003235096

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100026869721.0x0005f4

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

010056.i.4(5)

Title:

Dilkoosha [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali

Scope & Content:

Genre: Architectural Photography

General view of the European style country house, designed by the amateur architect Gore Ouseley in around 1805 and modelled on Vanbrugh's Seaton Delaval in Northumberland: 'This magnificent hunting-box, or country-seat, was built by Saadaut Ali Khan. He cleared away the dense jungle surrounding it, and converted the grounds into an immense, well-arranged park, which he stocked with deer and other game, and further so beautifully ornamented the place, that it became the favourite resort of the ladies of the court during the summer months...After the formation of the new Cantonment, at Mahomed Bagh, the Dilkoosha was made a residence for the General commanding the Division, and remained so for years; but it has lately been dismantled, and although it is built on an eminence, nothing can now be seen of the once noble edifice, but its bare massive walls and castellated stair-cases...' This photograph must have been taken in the 1860s: photographs from the last years of that decade show the building already in a ruined condition.

Collection Area:

Printed Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003235096
040-003235101

Is part of:

010056.i.4 : The Lucknow album. Containing a series of fifty photographic views of Lucknow and its environs together with a large sized plan of…

010056.i.4(5) : Dilkoosha [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali

Hierarchy:

032-003235096[0005]/040-003235101

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 item

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Not applicable

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Techniques:

Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print

Start Date:

1860

End Date:

1867

Date Range:

1860s

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