Beato, Felice
Italian (1825-1903)

TITLE ON OBJECT: The Baillie Guard Gateway and Banquetting Room.

1857-58
albumen print
23.9 x 30.0 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 12185
81:2937:0039

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13528-32
NON-GEH NUMBER: 2B

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 184.//

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(in brown ink) "The Baillie Gaurd [sic] Gateway and Banquetting Room." (in ink) "Lucknow" mat verso-(in pencil) "2B"

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, war ravaged
landscape, figures in