Source: British Library
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Aug 7, 2021
Govinda Ram Mittee's Pagoda, Calcutta (Kolkata) - Colour Print, 1798
Medium: etching and aquatint with hand-colouring
Source: British Library
View on the Chitpore Road, Calcutta (Kolkata) - Colour Print 1797
Medium: Etching and aquatint with hand-colouring
Source: British Library
South-East View of the New Government House - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Colour Print 1805
Medium: aquatint and etching with hand-colouring
Source: British Library
Mar 30, 2018
Dec 3, 2017
St Paul's Cathedral - Calcutta (Kolkata) 1865
This photograph of St Paul's Cathedral in Calcutta was taken by Oscar Mallitte in 1865 to form part of an album entitled 'Photographs of India and Overland Route'. It shows a view of the cathedral looking across the Birjee Tank (water supply) on the south-east corner of the Maidan. The cathedral was designed in the Indo-Gothic style by William F Forbes. Forbes, a military engineer who was later promoted to Major General, was also responsible for the design of the old Calcutta Mint where he held the post of Mint Master for a time. Construction of the cathedral began in 1839, when the foundation stone was laid by Daniel Wilson, Bishop of Calcutta, and completed in 1847. The tall central spire and square tower beneath were inspired by a similar feature at the twelfth century cathedral in Canterbury, England. The upper portion of the tower, which originally reached a height of sixty-one metres, was destroyed in an earthquake in 1934.
From: British Library
Calcutta (Kolkata) Docks with the Swing-Bridge Gates at the Entrance to the Half-Tide Basin as seen from the River - 1891
Photograph taken in 1891 by an unknown photographer of the Calcutta Docks with the swing-bridge gates at the entrance to the half-tide basin as seen from the river. The Calcutta Port is the only major riverine port in India and constitutes the Calcutta Dock System. In March 1884, the Secretary of State confirmed the adoption of the Kidderpore site for new docks. The entrance to the dock was to be through a tidal basin about 600 ft by 650 ft, and from the tidal basin to the river were two entrances, one 80 ft wide and the other 60 ft. In 1889-90, the tidal basin had been completed and brought into use, and dock number one was almost finished. The swing-bridges move on a central vertical pivot, allowing shipping to pass in and out of the half-tide basin which remains open for a few hours either side of high-tide.
From: British Library
Lord Hardinge's statue & the Ochterlony Monument - Calcutta (Kolkata) 1865
Photograph of Lord Hardinge's statue and the Ochterlony Monument, from 'Views of Calcutta and Barrackpore' taken in the 1860s by Samuel Bourne. This view across Calcutta's Maidan shows J. H. Foley's equestrian statue of Lord Hardinge, Governor-General of India (1844-1848). In the background is the monument to Sir David Ochterlony, the victor of the Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814-1816, since renamed the Shahid Minar, and dedicated to Indian martyrs.
From: British Library
The Esplanade and Government House from Chowringhee - Calcutta (Kolkata) 1865
A view from the north end of Chowringhee Road, beside the carriage stand, looking north-west across the Dhurrumtollah Tank, towards the façades of the houses along Esplanade Row, with Government House at the extreme left. The flat-fronted, verandahed building behind the premises of William Coish & Co is the Adjutant-General's offices. Among the commercial premises on Esplanade Row are Mountain's Hotel, Madame Nielly (French milliner), Payne & Co's Belatee Bungalow and Thomson & Co.Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Source: British Library
Hindu Ascetic doing Penance on a Bed of Spikes near the Shrine of Kali, Calcutta (Kolkata) - c.1903
Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program
Esplanada Row, Looking Towards Dharamtala, Calcutta (Kolkata) - c.1880's
Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program
Calcutta (kolkata) - Panoramic view from the Ochterlony Monument 1865
Photograph by Samuel Bourne in 1865 from Ochterlony Monument (now Shahid Minar). Images from www.geh.org. Photographs are low resolution I need a high resolution for more detail. Old photographs of Calcutta are extremely rare.
View in the Eden Gardens - Calcutta (kolkata)
Very old Eden Gardens image in Calcutta but exact date unknown.
From Life Archive
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Pagoda in Eden Garden, Calcutta (Kolkata) - Undated Vintage Photograph
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Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program
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Various Photographs of Eden Gardens Calcutta (Kolkata) - Mid 19th Century
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Photographer: Francis Frith
Date: Between 1850s to 1870s
Whole-plate albumen print from wet collodion glass negative
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