[Felice Beato, photograph; Indian Mutiny] The Bailee Guard Gate taken from inside showing the Clock tower, Lucknow.

Author: 
Felice Beato, photographer.
Publication details: 
Lucknow, 1858
£650.00
SKU: 23552

Albumen silver print, 29.8 x 25.6cm, laid down on slightly larger card, small nick at the top right corner, ow a good sharp image. There's contemporary docketing at the base of the photograph. See image. Note (BL description): Photograph of the Baillie Guard gateway in Lucknow, [...] taken by Felice Beato in the 1858. The Baillie Guard gateway is the entrypoint to the Residency Complex named after Major John Baillie, who was the Resident from 1811-1815. The Residency Building, built c.1800 for the British Resident in Lucknow, was a key site of the Siege of Lucknow during the Uprising of 1857. Approximately 3000 British inhabitants took refuge within the complex. The surviving ruins convey the grandeur of the original structure and provide an insight to the the events of 1857.