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Mount Picket, Delhi

Photograph
mid 19th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

In response to an earlier attack by Gujar Indians upon Metcalfe House in May and at Flagstaff Tower on 8th June, the Metcalfe family erected Mount Picket on 12th June 1857.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleMount Picket, Delhi (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Albumen photographic print
Brief description
Photograph by Felice Beato of Mount Picket with Metcalfe house in the distance, after the Indian Mutiny, Delhi, India, about 1858
Physical description
In response to an earlier attack by Gujar Indians upon Metcalfe House in May and at Flagstaff Tower on 8th June, the Metcalfe family erected Mount Picket on 12th June 1857.
Dimensions
  • Height: 24.8cm
  • Width: 30.2cm
Style
Object history
Beato had a particular interest in photographing military campaigns. The rich diversity of his work in India developed after his arrival in February 1858, where he photographed the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny and devastation in Delhi, Cawnpore and Lucknow of 1857, famous for its massacre of Europeans by the Indian army. Beato's war photographs of India range from portraits of commanding officers to vast Indian landscapes and derelict forts and palaces.
Historical context
There is little conclusive evidence about the life of the 19th century photographer Felice A. Beato, who was born in Venice between 1825 and 1830, but became a naturalised British subject. Beato is most recognised as a war photographer where his travel from Europe provided the opportunity to record military war in India after the Mutiny of 1857, the opium wars in China in 1860 and Japan in 1862. Beato later died in Burma, ca 1908-1909.
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Masselos, Jim and Gupta, Narayani (2000) " Beato's Delhi 1857, 1997", Ravi Dayal, Delhi.
Collection
Accession number
PH.2056-1905

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Record createdMay 15, 2003
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