View of a memorial commemorating Wheeler's Entrenchment, Cawnpore (now Kanpur), India

People:

Unknown (photographer)

Title:

View of a memorial commemorating Wheeler's Entrenchment, Cawnpore (now Kanpur), India

Date:

before 3 March 1910

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 15.2 x 21.0 cm secondary support: 24.2 x 28.8 cm

Reference number:

PH1980:0274.02:047

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, l.c. to l.r.: with title numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.r.: "47" inscribed - in the image, c.: "IHS / IN A WELLUNDER [sic] / THIS CROSS WERE / LAID BY Ye HANDS OF / THEIR FELLOWS IN / SUFFERING Ye BODIES / OF MEN WOMEN AND / CHILDREN WHO DIED / HARD BY DURING Ye / HEROIC DEFENSE OF / WHEELER'S INTRENCHMENT / WHEN BELEACURERED [?] / BY Ye REBEL NANA. / JUNE VI TO XXVII A.D. / MDCCCIVII." [carved on the memorial] inscribed - in the image, l.c.: "OUT BONES ARE SCATTERED AT Ye GRAVES MOUTH / AS WHEN ONE CUTTETH AND CLEAVETH WOOD UPON Ye / EARTH: BUT OUR EYES ARE UNTO THEE O GOD THE LORD. / Palm [?] cxl" [carved on the memorial]

Location:

Kanpur; Uttar Pradesh; India;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

fence
cemetery
crosses (visual works)
monument
memorial
soldier

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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