• Felice Beato (photographer)

Panorama of Lucknow from the Asafi Masjid in the Bara [Great] Imambara, India

1858

Albumen silver prints

comp.: 25.2 x 239.5 cm (9 15/16 x 94 5/16 in.) comps. (range; visible images): 25.3 to 25.4 x 29.5 to 32.6 cm secondary support (approx.; bound): 37.5 x 45.2 cm

PH1988:0380:027:001-008

• exterior views

- Photographs PH1988:0380:027:001 - PH1988:0380:027:008 are joined together to form panorama PH1988:0380:027:001-008. The left edges of photographs PH1988:0380:027:002 - PH1988:0380:027:008 are covered by the right edge of photographs PH1988:0380:027:001 - PH1988:0380:027:007, respectively, where the eight photos are attached. Panorama PH1988:0380:027:001-008 has been removed from its secondary support but the secondary support remains bound in album PH1988:0380:001-039.

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, b.: "X" (PH1988:0380:027:005 - PH1988:0380:027:006) inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet of PH1988:0380:027:002, verso, c.l.: with title inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: with title

Lucknow; Uttar Pradesh; India;

• architecture
• topographique

• ruins
• trees
• river
• stairs
• gateways
• houses
• domes
• city
• temples
• tents
• tomb
• mausoleum
• mosques
• bridge (built work)
• buildings
• arcades
• staircase
• roads
• arches
• masjids
• minarets
• chhatris
• vaulted hall
• awnings
• cusped arches
• imambaras

Contient:

• PH1988:0380:027:001, View of Lucknow from the Asafi Masjid in the Bara [Great] Imambara with the Jami Masjid in the left background and the Chota Imambara (also known as the Hussainabad Imambara) in the central background, India, 1858
• PH1988:0380:027:002, View of Lucknow from the Asafi Masjid in the Bara [Great] Imambara showing buildings, a mosque in the left foreground and the Gomati River in the right background, India, 1858
• PH1988:0380:027:003, View of Lucknow from the Asafi Masjid in the Bara [Great] Imambara showing the Rumi Darwaza and the Gomati River, India, 1858
• PH1988:0380:027:004, View of Lucknow from the Asafi Masjid in the Bara [Great] Imambara showing gateways, one of which leads to the outer courtyard of the imambara, possibly with the Tile Wali Masjid in the background, India, 1858
• PH1988:0380:027:005, View of Lucknow from the Asafi Masjid in the Bara [Great] Imambara showing gateways, one of which leads to the inner courtyard of the imambara, with the Gomati River in the background, India, 1858
• PH1988:0380:027:006, View of Lucknow from the Asafi Masjid in the Bara [Great] Imambara showing the inner courtyard of the imambara with buildings in the background, India, 1858
• PH1988:0380:027:007, View of Lucknow from the Asafi Masjid in the Bara [Great] Imambara showing the inner courtyard and the vaulted hall of the imambara with buildings in the background, India, 1858
• PH1988:0380:027:008, View of Lucknow from the Asafi Masjid in the Bara [Great] Imambara showing the minaret of the masjid and the vaulted hall of the imambara with buildings in the background, India, 1858