• Unknown (photographer)

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

before 3 March 1910

Gelatin silver print

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

PH1980:0274.02:047

• exterior view

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]

Kanpur; Uttar Pradesh; India;

• architecture

• fence
• cemetery
• crosses (visual works)
• monument
• memorial
• soldier