FELICE BEATO AND JAMES ROBERTSON

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FELICE BEATO AND JAMES ROBERTSON

Views of Lucknow, circa 1857-58

Eighteen salt prints, sizes approx. 9¼ x 11 3/8 in. to 12 x 10½ in., mounted on album leaves including six mounted back-to-back, the remainder with ruled ink border, titled in ink on mounts; with two light albumen prints, each approx. 8½ x 11 in., mounted on paper, titled Part of the Temple Tencassee... and Tinnevelly Bridge after the flood, the latter matted. (20)
Literature
Pal and Dehejia, From Merchants to Emperors, pl. 220.
Exhibited
New York, The Morgan Library and Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, From Merchants to Emperors, British Artists and India, 1757-1930, 1986-87.

Lot Essay

Titles are as follows: 'The [?Rumee] Durivazah or Constantinople Gate of Lucknow', 'Jumma Musjid Gate', 'Mosque in the Interior of the Hoseinabad Emambara', 'The Shah Nujeef', 'The Battery near the Begum Kotee', 'Gateway leading into the Residency held by Capt. Aitken 13 N.I.', 'The Road by which Genl. Havelock entered the Residency', 'Saadut Ali's Tomb in the Kaiser Bagh', 'Alumbagh Palace', 'Bridge of Boats over the Goomtee', 'The Stone Bridge', 'The Mess House', 'Great Gateway of Kaiserbagh at Lucknow, Bengal', 'Small Mosque in the Kaiserbagh, Lucknow, Bengal', 'Mosque inside of the Emambara, Lucknow, used as a Hospital', 'The small Emambara Magazine Lucknow', and 'The Dilka[?]uska Palace, Lucknow'.

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