Title

Plate presented by the Inhabitants of Calcutta to Sir Rowland MacDonald Stephenson..., 1857. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Plate presented by the Inhabitants of Calcutta to Sir Rowland MacDonald Stephenson, Managing Director of the East Indian Railway, 1857. The accompanying address stated: "Without perseverance such as yours we should to the present day have been without a single mile of railway on this side of India. Led by your excellent example, the other Presidencies of India have taken up the scheme which you years ago predicted would be of such advantage to this country; and you have proved...that this mode of communication is not less adapted to the wants and habits of the natives of India than to those of the inhabitants of Europe"...'The Plate consists of a magnificent candelabrum...designed and executed by Messrs. Hunt and Roskell...At each angle of the base are Indian figures: a Hindoo porter and girl with vase...and an English engineer directing a native workman in his operations'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM23A76_393

Model release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

14,4Mb (678,2Kb) / 6,4in x 8,7in / 1922 x 2612 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation India railways Indian country British railway color decoration decorative ornament gift present location century empire Britain newspapers press decorated B&W candelabra engraved engraving Colour candelabrum 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector British Empire British Raj Hindoostan Illustrated London News imperialism Raj wood engraving ILN newspaper object Unknown The Raj Stephenson British India 19th-century Hunt and Roskell Roskell Hunt and Hunt & Roskell Hunt & East India Railway Rowland MacDonald Stephenson Rowland MacDonald Sir Rowland MacDonald Stephenson