View of the Esplanade (also known as Maidan) showing Chowringhee Road (now Jawaharlal Nehru Road) and administrative buildings, Calcutta, India

People:

Josiah Rowe (photographer)

Title:

View of the Esplanade (also known as Maidan) showing Chowringhee Road (now Jawaharlal Nehru Road) and administrative buildings, Calcutta, India

Date:

1859

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.8 x 25.1 cm

Reference number:

PH1983:0300:007

Point of View:

aerial view
exterior view

Inscription:

numbered and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the image, u.l.: "No. 6 joins" and u.l. and u.l. to u.c.: with publisher's cropping marks numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, u.l.: No 7 [underlined]"

Location:

Calcutta; West Bengal; India;

Subject:

architecture
landscape architecture
topographic

Subject Descriptive Terms:

railings
promenades (walkways)
streets
administration buildings

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

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