FELICE BEATO, JAMES ROBERTSON and others

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FELICE BEATO, JAMES ROBERTSON and others

Lucknow, circa 1857-58

Album containing twenty non-matt salt prints or lightl albumen prints, including two approx. 7½ x 6¼ in., the remainder approx. 11½ x 9½ in. or the reverse, titled in ink on mounts, inscribed in ink Sophia M. Brooks with her husband's fond love Feby 23rd 1852 on front blank; with twenty-eight albumen print portraits and views, various sizes, half green morocco, titled Scrap Book in gilt on spine, ruled in gilt, g.e., large 4to.

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The titles of the studies by Beato and Robertson relating to sites associated with the Mutiny are as follows: 'Gateway to Jumma Musjid', 'The Martiniere, and Column', 'Marble Mosque...or, Tomb of Mohomed Ali Shah', 'Saadut Ali's Tomb', 'The Begum's Palace', 'Residency, Lucknow, after the Seige', 'Kudun Russooi', 'Bank's House', 'New Fortifications, Commanding the Stone Bridge', 'Part of the Enemy's Entrenchments, shewing a breach made at the Capture of Lucknow', 'Mosque of the large Emambara, used as a Hospital', 'The Bailey Guard, and Banquetting House, used as a Hospital during the Seige', 'The Bailey Guard', 'The Chutter Munzil from Bridge of Boats', 'The Bailey Guard - outside view', 'The Shah Nujief Mosque', 'The Foorsut Munzil - Mess House 52nd Light Infy.', and 'Gateway to the Emambarra of Mujid Ali'; also included is a portrait of General Lord Clyde G.C.B. and Major Gen. Sir Wm. Mansfield K.C.B. and a portrait of Major J.H. Brooks.