Photo 1000/16(1662)

Genre: Portrait Photography

Formal European group portrait, with elephants ranged in the background. This photograph was possibly taken in February 1882, on the occasion mentioned in the annual report: 'The contemplated tour of the Agent, Governor General, for Central India, through the Bundelkhand states had to be given up...This was a sore disappointment to the chiefs generally, who were most anxious to make the acquaintance of Sir Lepel Griffin; some few of them were eventually able to gratify this wish, as the Agent, Governor General, paid a hurried visit to Panna, Chhatarpur, Nowgong, and Chirkari, in February 1882, returning to Indore via Futtehpur' ('Report on the Political Administration of the Territories within the Central India Agency for 1881-82', p. 258 (IOR/V/23/42)). The civil station and cantonment at Nowgong was at this period the headquarters of the Political Agent in the Bundelkhand. Lepel Griffin, Agent to the Governor-General for Central India, is seated at the table at the right of this group of staff and families. Major Crawford Boyd Cooke, Political Agent for the Bundelkhand, stands behind and to the left of the woman seated next to Lepel Griffin. Other figures are unidentified.