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The Lucknow album: containing a series of fifty photographic views of Lucknow and its environs together with a large sized plan of the city, Lucknow. India
The Lucknow album: containing a series of fifty photographic views of Lucknow and its environs together with a large sized plan of the city, Lucknow. India
People:
  • Darogha Ubbas Alli (photographer)
Title:

The Lucknow album: containing a series of fifty photographic views of Lucknow and its environs together with a large sized plan of the city, Lucknow. India

Date:

before 1874

Form:
books
photographs
Quantity / Object type:
1 book(s)
Technique and media:

Albumen silver prints

Dimensions:

comps. (range): 10,4 to 15,4 x 10,4 to 15,5 cm pages (bound): 15 x 24,8 cm book (closed): 25,6 x 17,2 x 3,5 cm

Reference number:

PH1979:0610:001-050

Point of View:
  • general view
  • partial view
  • distant views
  • exterior views
Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Contemporary binding consists of full rose cloth-covered boards and brown spine with gilt lettering. Map in pocket on verso of back cover. Brown cloth-covered slipcase.

Inscription:

imprinted - in black ink, on a paper label adhered to the spine, u.c., and in gilt, on the front cover, c.: with title imprinted and dated - in black ink, on the title page, t. to l.c.: "THE / LUCKNOW ALBUM. / CONTAINING A SERIES OF / FIFTY PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF LUCKNOW / AND ITS ENVIRONS / TOGETHER WITH A LARGE SIZED / PLAN OF THE CITY / EXECUTED BY / Daroga Ubbas Alli, / Assistant Municipal Engineer. / TO THE ABOVE IS ADDED / A FULL DESCRIPTION OF EACH SCENE DEPICTED. / THE WHOLE FORMING A COMPLETE / ILLUSTRATED GUIDE / TO THE CITY OF LUCKNOW / THE CAPITAL OF OUDH."; and l.c.: "CALCUTTA: Printed by G. H. Rouse, Baptist Mission Press. / 1874." imprinted and dated - in black ink, on the dedication page, c.: "Dedicated by Permission / TO / Sir George Couper, Bart., C. B., / CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF OUDH."

Location:

Lucknow; Uttar Pradesh; India;

Subject:
  • architecture
  • engineering
  • military
Subject Descriptive Terms:
  • courthouses
  • government office buildings
  • complexes
  • courtyard
  • ruins
  • fences
  • stairs
  • gateways
  • houses
  • museum
  • offices
  • statues
  • palaces
  • domes
  • obelisk
  • ordnance depots
  • pavilions (garden structures)
  • shutters
  • towers (building divisions)
  • shrines (structures)
  • mausoleum
  • hospitals
  • mosques
  • bridges (built works)
  • pointed arches
  • tombs
  • fort
  • military camp
  • mansions
  • columns (architectural elements)
  • churches
  • official residences
  • park (recreation area)
  • office building
  • bank (building)
  • arsenals
  • minarets
  • branch bank
  • hunting lodge
  • memorial
  • mess hall
  • portals
  • private gardens
  • research institutes
  • restaurants
  • royal palaces
  • semicircular arches
  • town halls
  • citadel
  • rose windows
  • stained glass (visual works)
  • throne room
  • reflecting pool
  • porticos
  • observatory
  • banquet hall
  • boarding school
  • college
  • coronation hall
  • dispensary (health facility)
  • elliptical arches
  • pleasure garden
  • retreat
  • roller shades
  • summerhouse
  • arch bridges
  • metal-work
Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
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