File:Plate 24, View from the Iron Bridge (complete).jpg
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editDavid Scott Dodgson: View from the Iron Bridge ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q34324116
artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q76154186 |
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Author |
creator QS:P170,Q76154186 |
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Title |
View from the Iron Bridge |
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Object type |
print object_type QS:P31,Q11060274 |
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Description |
English: Plate 24, View from the Iron Bridge, looking downstream from the right bank of the river.
Until the 20th century, there were few bridges across the swift-flowing Gomti at Lucknow. Designed by John Rennie, the iron bridge was purchased by Nawab Saadat Ali Khan, but lay in packing crates for 40 years after its arrival from England. The English bishop Heber visited Lucknow in 1824 and kept a diary of his time there. Bridges, he noted, seemed to have superstitious relevance in the minds of the Nawabs of Avadh. He wrote that when Saadat Ali died, the iron bridge was deemed unlucky and hence stayed unconstructed. When Lord Hastings visited Lucknow in 1814, the handsome stone bridge was decaying. He was informed that the Nawab could not repair it since there was a firm conviction that doing so would result in his death within a year. |
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Depicted place |
Lucknow
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Date |
1 September 1860 date QS:P571,+1860-09-01T00:00:00Z/11 |
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Medium |
lithograph medium QS:P186,Q15123870 |
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Dimensions |
height: 37 cm (14.5 in); width: 56.3 cm (22.1 in) dimensions QS:P2048,37U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,56.3U174728 reference |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q23308 |
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Accession number |
X270(24) |
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Place of creation | London | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019xzz000000270u00024000.html | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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