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Illuminations at Calcutta in honour of the Prince of Wales...1876. Creator: Unknown.

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Illuminations at Calcutta in honour of the Prince of Wales, from a sketch by one of our special artists, 1876. 'The illuminations...afforded, from different points of view, a spectacle to be greatly admired...[View looking] westward...along the great fashionable thoroughfare of Chowringhee. This is open to the Esplanade on the left hand, beyond which, in the left hand background, is seen Government House...The dome of the Post Office appears near that part of the background. The column of the Ochterlony monument, overlooking the Governor's Tank, is in the middle of the open ground, the Maidan. The tower above the houses of the city, looking directly over the tank, is that of the telegraph-office....the Chowringhee road [is] thronged with carriages and native spectators on foot...A triumphal arch, at the end of Chowringhee, terminates the view along the street'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM23A81_034

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Droits gérés

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47,7Mo (5,4Mo) / 42,0cm x 28,5cm / 4960 x 3362 (300dpi)

Mots clés

travel exterior outdoors urban building people busy India Indian arts light night country entertainment lights art British color lighting Calcutta illumination location century illuminated lantern lanterns Britain illuminate newspapers press print concept illuminations time of day B&W tourist attraction engraved engraving lit Up Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century tourism The Print Collector Hindoostan Illustrated London News royal visit TGN ILN outside street newspaper landscape Chowringhee Unknown Prince of Wales Prince Edward King Edward VII Edward VII Wettin Prince Albert Edward chowringhee road Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David Chowringhi King of Great Britain and Ireland 19th-century HRH The Prince of Wales