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[Mosque inside Asaf-ud Dawlah's Emambara or Tomb, Now Used as a Hospital, Lucknow]
Creator
Felice BeatoPhotographer · 1832–1909
All works by this person →Felice Beato was the first photographer to devote himself entirely to photographing in Asia and the Near East. He photographed in Japan, India, Athens, Constantinople, the Crimea, and Palestine. He settled in Yokohama and from 1863 to 1877 made hundreds of ethnographic portraits and genre scenes in Japan. He eventually opened a furniture and curio business in Burma. Beato's photographic career was
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- 1858
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- English
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 54d106a2-55bf-437e-8925-1fa422a45642
From LinkedCulture
This mosque in Lucknow was photographed just one year after the 1857 uprising, already converted from a place of worship into a British military hospital. Felice Beato captured its twin domes and ornate minarets rising against a pale sky, with artillery carts and ceramic vessels scattered across the courtyard below. Made in 1858 as an albumen silver print, this image is one of the earliest documentary records of war's aftermath ever created, showing exactly how conflict reshapes every institution it touches.
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Structure with two domes and two minerets; carts and figures in the foreground
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