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Beato, Felice
Italian (1825-1903)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Begums Tomb.

1857-58
albumen print
30.2 x 25.6 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 12160
81:2937:0026

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13528-41

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(in brown ink) "Begums Tomb."

NOTES: Catalogued 3/96, DZ. In the book, --The Army in India, 1850-1914--, Sir Claude Auchinleck states, "In March 1858 [Major-General Colin] Campbell with a force of some 25,000 men recaptured Lucknow from the rebels - but with heavy loss. It was on this march that the photographer Felice Beato took his photographs." [p. 26]

SUBJECTS:
architecture, tomb
street scene, figures in

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