FELICE BEATO AND JAMES ROBERTSON

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FELICE BEATO AND JAMES ROBERTSON

'Mine in the Chuttur Munzil', Lucknow, circa 1857-58

Salt print, 10 1/8 x 11 in., mounted on an album page, ruled ink border, titled in ink on mount, matted.
Provenance

Literature
Worswick & Embree, The Last Empire, p. 65 (illus.) where captioned 'Formerly a palace for the royal queens, the Chutter Menzil was part of the fortifications used by the British in their defence of the Residency of Lucknow'.
Exhibited
New York, The Asia House Gallery, The Last Empire, Photography in British India, 1855-1911, 1976.

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