• Unknown (photographer)

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

1857-1879 ?

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

Albumen silver print

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

PH1982:0301:088

• exterior view

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]

Lucknow; Uttar Pradesh; India;

• architecture

• boats
• ghat