Call Number:

PH-01008

Collection Name:

Felice Beato Photography Collection

Creator:

No. of Items:

53 photographs

Span Dates:

1850s-1860s

Description:

The collection consists of 53 photographs by Felice Beato (Italian-British, 1832-1909). The photographs, which are all albumen prints, are views of buildings and villages, primarily in Lucknow, but also in Calcutta and Delhi, following the events of the Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858 (a.k.a., the Indian Mutiny). Also included are four views of the destruction of the Ta-ku Fort in north China, following the Anglo-French storming during the Arrow, or second Opium, War. Notable buildings pictured include: the Taj Mahal (Agra); the Shahnajaf Emambara (Lucknow); the Chhota Emambara, (a.k.a., the Hussainabad Imambara), the tomb of Mohammad Ali Shah (Lucknow); the Marble Palace in Fort Agra (a.k.a., the Red Fort) (Agra); and the Chattar Manzil palace (Lucknow). Select subject descriptions and item-level information follows.

964:0403:0001-0029 -- Views of buildings, some damaged, in Lucknow, 1858, shortly after the Indian Mutiny;
964:0409:0001-0015 -- Views of India;
964:0411:0001-0004 -- Views of Fort Ta-ku, North China, after storming by French and English troops in 1858;
964:0414:0001 -- Lucknow after the Indian Mutiny;
964:0866:0001 -- Taj Mahal, Agra;
964:0107:0019 -- Beato, Felice [and Henry Hering?]. "Encampment of the British Expeditionary Army Kowloon Bay showing the Island of Hong Kong & [town?] of Victoria, 1860," 1860. Albumen prints (panorama comprised of six prints joined together), 8.2 x 66.4 cm (panorama unfolded); 8.2 x 23.1 cm (panorama folded); 22.7 x 35.3 cm (mount);
964:0124:0001 -- Execution of the Servant Sokichi, 1865-1868. Hand-colored albumen print;
964:0124:0002 -- The Execution Ground, Kiso, Japan, circa 1867. Hand-colored albumen print.

Accession No(s):

964:0107:0019; 964:0124:0001-0002; 964:0403:0001-0029; 964:0409:0001-0015; 964:0411:0001-0004; 964:0866:0001; 964:0414:0001

Location(s):

Special permission required Robertson & Beato Box 4 (Folded Panoramas)
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Special permission required Robertson & Beato Box 5 (964:0401:0023-0024; 964:0407:0002-0006; 964:0408:0001-0006; 964:0409:0015)
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Beato, F., Box 1 (964:0409:0001-0014; 964:0411:0001-0004; 964:0414:0001; 964:0866:0001)
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Beato, F., Box 2 (964:0403:0001-0018)
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Beato, F., Box 3 (964:0403:0019-0029)
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Robertson & Beato Box 1 (964:0401:0001-0017, 0020-0022, 0027-0030; 964:0408:0007-0012)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 10 (964:0124:0001-0002)
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See Also:

Photographic Views. Crimea, India &c. &c. [Dew Album]: Twenty additional prints by Beato are location in the album Photographic Views. Crimea, India &c. &c. [Dew Album] (PH-00873),

Robertson & Beato Photography Collection