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Beato, Felice
Italian (1825-1903)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Indian Mutiny
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Damaged house

1857
albumen print
17.2 x 23.6 cm.
Museum Collection
GEH NEG: 12158
81:2966:0003

INSCRIPTION: mount recto-(in pencil) "Indian mutiny 1857" "photo Beato"

NOTES: Catalogued 3/96, DZ. There is a question of attribution for this photograph. Even though image is signed "photo Beato", the photograph may be of damage caused by the Cyclone of 1864 in Calcutta. (See album 73:0219) Beato was in India 1857-59. If photographs of Cyclone, they cannot be by Beato.

SUBJECT: architecture, damaged

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