• Felice Beato (photographer)

View of the Husainabad Imambara [Palace of Lights] complex, Lucknow, India

between 1858 and 1860

Albumen silver print

comp.: 26.0 x 30.8 cm page: 37.2 x 48.0 cm

PH1982:0301:065

• exterior view

numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print, u.r.: "55" numbered and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black [?] ink, on the print, verso, c.l.: "No 55. The Moosabagh" [sideways] numbered and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and sepia ink, on the secondary support under the image, b. to l.r.: with title [underlined] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support over the image, u.r.: "5[5]"

Lucknow; Uttar Pradesh; India;

• architecture

• complex
• domes
• tomb
• towers (building divisions)
• mausoleum
• mosque
• pointed arches
• columns (architectural elements)
• minarets
• reflecting pool