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The Mucha Bawn, or the old Citadel of Lucknow, which was abandoned by Sir Henry Lawrence, and partly blown up when he took up his position in the Residency.
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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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- 1858–1860
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
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- English
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- Photographs
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Piles of rubble from explosions stand outside the walls of the citadel. Wooden posts stick up out of the dirt.
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