Cawnpore Memorial Well, Kanpur
Title

Cawnpore Memorial Well, Kanpur

Caption

Close up of the angel statue and cross on a stepped plinth at Cawnpore Memorial Well in Kanpur. The monument commemorates the burial place, a dry well, of some two hundred European and Eurasian women and children hostages who were murdered on 16 July 1857 during the Indian Rebellion. Inscribed on negative: Frith's Series. 3062 Cawnpore; Memorial Wells. Caption reads: Memorial Well, Cawnpore.

Date

1880

Credit line

Photo12/UIG/Bristol Archives/Dring collection

Reference

UMG24A02_281

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

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