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Indian Mutiny (1858)
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1.Felice Beato
1858-1860
View of the ruins of the Chattar Manzil [Umbrella Palaces], Lucknow, India

Albumen print
CCA: Canadian Centre for Architecture
PH1982:0301:033
 
LL/40666
2.Felice Beato
1858
India, Lucknow, ‘the Place in which General Veili was killed in the China‘

Salt paper print, albumen
29,2 x 24,4 cm (image) 40,4 x 34,7 cm (mount)
 
Bloomsbury Auctions - Rome
Bloomsbury, Rome (Nov 10, 2008, Sale 17, Lot 33)
 
Titolo a matita sul recto del cartoncino di supporto.
L'album completo di Lucknow - stampato all'albumina - Þ stato venduto da Sotheby's il 13 maggio 2008 stabilendo il prezzo record per l'autore.
 
LL/31183
3.Felice Beato
1858
The Munchee Bau or old Citadel of Lucknow

Albumen print
National Army Museum
Negative No. 25198, Accession No. NAM. 1965-11-113-2
 
LL/41340
4.Felice Beato
1858, March
General Wheeler's entrenchment at Cawnpore

Albumen print
National Army Museum
Negative No. 25210, Accession No. NAM. 1965-11-113-14
 
LL/41341
5.Felice Beato
1858 (ca)
Members of the Sirmoor Battalion (later the 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles) outside Hindu Rao's house on the Delhi Ridge

Albumen print
National Army Museum
Negative No. 52643, Accession No. NAM. 1978-04-11-1
 
LL/41342
6.Felice Beato
1858 (ca)
British Army group at Lucknow

Albumen print
16.5 x 22 cm
 
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum number: 3218-1955
 
British Army group at Lucknow including Captain Wheeler, Lieutenant Hall, W.H. Warner, Mr. Kavanagh and Lieutenant Maxwell of the 1st Bengal Fusilers.
 
LL/36252
7.Felice Beato
1858
Sikh and British Officers of Hodson's Horse

Albumen print
National Army Museum
Negative No. 1198, Accession No. NAM. 1956-08-6-20
 
LL/41339
8.Felice Beato
1858 (ca)
General Sir Colin Campbell and Major General W Mansfield

Albumen print
National Army Museum
Negative No. 2866, Accession No. NAM. 1962-11-63-1
 
LL/41343
9.Felice Beato
1857
Major-General Robert Napier and Major E H Greathead, Lucknow

Albumen print
National Army Museum
Negative No. 11024, Accession No. NAM. 1963-08-103
 
LL/41344
10.Felice Beato
1858
Interior of the Secundra Bagh after the Slaughter of 2,000 Rebels by the 93rd Highlanders and 4th Punjab Regiment. First Attack of Sir Colin Campbell in November 1857, Lucknow.

Albumen print
24.9 x 28.7 cm (sheet)
 
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London
 
Title is taken from the copy at Brown University, Special Collections, Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection.
 
LL/36795
11.Felice Beato
1858, March (ca)
Interior of the Secundra Bagh after the Slaughter of 2,000 Rebels by the 93rd Highlanders and 4th Punjab Regiment. First Attack of Sir Colin Campbell in November 1857, Lucknow

Albumen silver print
26.2 x 29.8 cm
 
Brown University Library, Special Collections
Courtesy of Brown University, Special Collections, Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection
 
LL/6832
12.Felice Beato
1858 (ca)
The Residency, Taken in Front, and Showing the Room in Which Sir Henry Lawrence was Killed, Lucknow.

Albumen silver print
23.6 x 28.7 cm
 
Brown University Library, Special Collections
Courtesy of Brown University, Special Collections, Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection
 
LL/6833
13.Felice Beato
1858 (ca)
Untitled (An unidentified mosque in Delhi buillt in the Mughal style)

Albumen print
31 x 26.5 cm
 
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Number: PH.2069-1905
 
LL/36332
14.Felice Beato
1858-1859 (ca)
A Jain temple in Delhi

Albumen print
310 x 290 mm
 
Bonhams - London
courtesy Bonhams, London (April 9, 2008, #125)
 
Included in Sale 16200 - "India in Photography: Sale of the Collection of Kanwardip Gujral" at Bonhams in London (April 9, 2008)
 
LL/28263
15.Felice Beato
1858-1860
The Motee Mahal, Lucknow, India

Albumen print
CCA: Canadian Centre for Architecture
PH1979:0449:003
 
LL/40667
16.Felice Beato
1858-1860 (ca)
Interior - the Sikh temple - marble mosaic

Albumen Print
28 x 23.7 cm
 
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Number: 80:091
 
Beato took many photographs of the Golden Temple from many viewpoints. This one shows the doorway leading to the interior. The incription on the doorway reads: 'The great Guru in His wisdom looked upon Maharaja Ranjit Singh as his chief servitor and Sikh, and his benevolence, bestowed on him the privilege of serving the temple'.
 
LL/36316
17.Felice Beato
1858
Mutineers Hanged

Albumen print
This work is out of copyright
This photograph has been published with numerous titles including:
 
Mutineers Hanged
The Hanging of Two Rebels
 
The caption used by Getty Images (Editorial image #: 2672706) is:
 
After their capture of Delhi the Indian mutineers lost the city to British forces who extracted swift reprisals by hanging the leaders. Two of them are hanging from a gallows.
 
LL/36238
18.Felice Beato
1858
Mutineers Hanged

Albumen print
This work is out of copyright
This photograph has been published with numerous titles including:
 
Mutineers Hanged
The Hanging of Two Rebels
 
The caption used by Getty Images (Editorial image #: 2672706) is:
 
After their capture of Delhi the Indian mutineers lost the city to British forces who extracted swift reprisals by hanging the leaders. Two of them are hanging from a gallows.
 
LL/36239
19.Felice Beato
1858 (ca)
Execution of two Indian mutineers

Albumen print
16.6 x 22 cm
 
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum number: 3219-1955
 
LL/36249
20.Robert & Harriet Tytler
1858
Lahore Gate of the Palace, Delhi

Photographic print
British Library
Shelfmark: Photo 193/(11), Item number: 19311
 
LL/41284
21.Robert & Harriet Tytler
1858
No. 9. Mosque at Meerut said to be the principal resort of the mutineers.

Photographic print
36.3 x 47.4 cm
 
British Library
Shelfmark: Photo 32/(16), Item number: 16
 
LL/41283
22.Robert & Harriet Tytler
1858
No. 18. The Residency at Lucknow. The square tower on the right slightly in view is the one in which Lawrence was wounded.

Photographic print
38 x 53 cm
 
British Library
Shelfmark: Photo 32/(12), Item number: 12
 
LL/41286
23.Robert & Harriet Tytler
1858
La Martiniere, Lucknow.

Photographic print
36 x 48.6 cm
 
British Library
Shelfmark: Photo 32/(15), Item number: 15
 
LL/41287
24.Robert & Harriet Tytler
1858
Slaughter Ghat, Cawnpore

Photographic print
British Library
Shelfmark: Photo 193/(20), Item number: 19320
 
LL/41285
25.John Murray
1858
Suttee Ghat Cawnpore ["Suttee Ghat Cawnpore," Scene of the Mutiny Massacre, Kanpur, India]

Paper negative
38 x 48 cm (14 15/16 x 18 7/8 ins)
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.946
 
LL/40434
26.Patrick Gerald Fitzgerald
1858, January
No. 3. Alambagh House near Lucknow

Waxed paper negative
170 x 240 mm
 
Bonhams - London
Courtesy Bonhams, London (April 9, 2008, #240)
 
Fitzgerald was an Assistant Surgeon with the Madras Artillery. This and the three lots following are from a group eight negatives offered in six lots at Sotheby's 17 June, 1981.
 
The Alambagh is a walled park four miles south of the Residency, and which was the scene of fighting during the first siege of Lucknow.
 
Included in Sale 16200 - "India and Beyond in Books and Photography" at Bonhams in London (April 9, 2008)
 
LL/28269
27.Oscar Jean-Baptiste Mallitte
1858-1861
[Lady Canning]
[Lord and Lady Canning Family Album]

Albumen silver print
16 x 19.7 cm (6 5/16 x 7 3/4 ins) (image) 33.1 x 26 cm (13 1/16 x 10 1/4 ins) (mount)
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.491.1 (52)
 
LL/40417
28.Captain John Constantine Stanley
1858-1861
[Great Sikh Gun taken at Ferozshah on the Night of December 21, 1845, Government House, Calcutta]
[Lord and Lady Canning Family Album]

Albumen silver print
15.4 x 20.8 cm (6 1/16 x 8 3/16 ins) (image) 33 x 26.4 cm (13 x 10 3/8 ins) (mount)
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.491.1 (14b)
 
LL/40418
29.Captain John Constantine Stanley
1858-1861
[Spence's Hotel & St. John's Cathedral, Calcutta]
[Lord and Lady Canning Family Album]

Albumen silver print
15.5 x 20.1 cm (6 1/8 x 7 15/16 ins) (image) 33 x 26.2 cm (13 x 10 5/16 ins) (mount)
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.491.1 (17b)
 
LL/40419
30.Linnaeus Tripe
1858
The Echo Rocks near Cotamputty, Poodoocottah album

Albumenized salt print from waxed paper negative
10 x 14.675
 
Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc
LL/4218
31.Linnaeus Tripe
1858
Pillars in the Recessed Portico in the Roya Gopuram with the Base of One of the Four Sculptured Monoliths, Madura
[Photographic Views in Madura, Part I]

Salted paper print, from paper negative
35.8 x 30.2 cm (14 1/8 x 11 7/8 ins) (image) 45.3 x 57.5 cm (17 13/16 x 22 5/8 ins) (mount)
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.381.1.9
 
LL/40445
32.Linnaeus Tripe
1858 (ca)
Aisle on the South side of the Puthu Mundapum, Madura, from the Western Portico, temple built in 1623

Lightly albumenised salt print from waxed paper negative
367 x 290mm
 
Royal Photographic Society
LL/6297
33.Linnaeus Tripe
1858
Madura, Trimul Naik's Choultry [India]
[Photographs of Madura, Part II series, 1858]

Albumen print, from a waxed paper negative
9 9/16 x 12 3/8 in
 
Peabody Essex Museum
Accession Number: PH99.2, Museum purchase, 2001
 
For an analysis of this photograph: Juliet Hacking (ed.), 2012, Photography: The Whole Story, (Prestel), pp. 94-95
 
LL/39768
34.Linnaeus Tripe
1858, June (ca)
Pillars in the central corridor of the Pudu or Vasanta Mantapam, Also known as 'Tirumalai's Chaultri' in the Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple, Madurai

Albumen print, from dry collodion negative
230 x 311 mm (9 x 12 in)
 
Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books
Courtesy of Bernard J Shapero Rare Books
 
Pasted on original leaf, title in English in manuscript 'Madura - View of the Nave from the Simhasanum at the West end. 13. III.
 
The Pudu Mantapam (the 'New Mandapa') sits outside the main enclosure of the Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple, to the east of the complex. The pillars inside are decorated with scuptures of several Nayaka rulers and ministers as well as Yalis, mythical beasts. The Pudu Mantapam was constructed during the reign of Tirumalai Nayaka. This is plate 3 from Photographic Views of Madura, Part II.
 
LL/30111
35.Linnaeus Tripe
1858
Book cover for Photographic Views in Madura, Part I

Book cover
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.381.1.1-.10
 
Book contains albumen silver prints from paper negatives.
 
Text by Martin Norman (English).
 
LL/40442
   
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