Title

The Relief of Lucknow - Leading the Sufferers to the British Camp', (1901).

Caption

'The Relief of Lucknow - Leading the Sufferers to the British Camp', (1901). The siege of Lucknow was one of the major engagements of the uprising against British rule in India which began in 1857. The city was besieged by mutineers for 87 days from the outbreak of the mutiny until a British force arrived on 25th November 1857. After 'The Relief of Lucknow', a painting made c1869, in the Glasgow Museums Resource Centre. From "The Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts, Vol. I. - To The End of the Indian Mutiny", by J. Maclaren Cobban. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901]

Date

1901

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F15_190

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

65,3Mb (2,2Mb) / 21,0in x 12,1in / 6310 x 3616 (300dpi)

Keywords

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