View of a ghat on the Gumti River showing people doing laundry in the foreground, Lucknow, India

People:

Unknown (photographer)

Title:

View of a ghat on the Gumti River showing people doing laundry in the foreground, Lucknow, India

Date:

1857-1879 ?

Description:

- A ghat is defined as a riverside landing platform (Davies, p. 595).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 21.9 x 27.9 cm page: 37.2 x 48.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1982:0301:088

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the print, l.l.: "A Ghat on the banks / of the Goomtee / Lucknow" [diagonally] numbered - by an unknown hand, in pen and black [?] ink, on the print, verso, t.: "XIII" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support under the image, l.c.: with title numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support below the image, l.c.: "XIII" [diagonally; erased]; and l.r.: "X" [erased]

Location:

Lucknow; Uttar Pradesh; India;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

boats
ghat

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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