Set of four prints of Old Delhi

a) Delhi und jeine Umgebungen (Delhi and its Environs)
Later hand-coloured woodcut engraving on paper
15 x 21 in (38.1 x 53.34 cm)

Published in Illustrirte Zeitung (Illustrated Newspaper), Leipzig, no. 750, 14 November, 1857.br.The ridge camp is to the northwest of the city, so the angle of view is southward.

CLOCKWISE

SECTION ONE WITH DOTS (walled city and southward) - TOP LEFT

2. Bridge of boats
3. Fort Selim Ghur
4. Royal palace
5. St. James Church
6. Nigambod Gate
7. Magazine [had been blown up]
8. Lahore Gate [of the palace]
10. Customs House
22. Ruins of old Delhi
25. Old fort
26. Insane asylum
27. Jail
28. Redoubt
29. Road to Agra
30. Road toward the Kotub [=Qutb Minar]
40. Arm of the Jumna
42. Jama Masjid
45. The Saadullah Khan [a large chauk or square created by Shah Jahan's vazir]
47. The Residency
52. Bagh Nabab Mir Khan (?)
53. Delhi Gate
54. Wellesley Bastion
55. Turkoman Gate [of the two sites marked with "55," the one further to the right is the correct one]
56. Ochterlony's bastion
57. Nava Gate (?)
58. Duryagunj Gate
59. Bur Khan's house (?)

SECTION TWO WITH DOTS (walled city and southward) - TOP RIGHT

11. Kashmiri Gate [mislabelled as "Mori Gate" on the map]
12. Shah bastion
13. Jumna canal
14. Mori Gate [mislabelled as "Kashmiri Gate," and located just north of (15), but not numbered on the map]
15. Burn bastion
21. Redoubt
22. Ruins of old Delhi
23. Raja Kibazar (?)
30. Road toward the Kotub [=Qutb Minar]
31. Road to Gorgaon
32. Kikak Gurj (?)
43. Chandni Chok
44. Masjid Futtehpor
46. Sicunder's house [right near (11) on the map, but not numbered]
48. College bastion
49. Ajmir gate
50. Khirki-suraj gate (?)
51. Kali masjid (?) [Can't find this on the map]

SECTION THREE WITH DOTS (outside the walls, from the Ridge) - LOWER RIGHT

13. Jumna canal
16. Mosque
17. Rubbo Sahib [Can't find this number on the map]
18. New Eidgah
19. Old Eidgah
20. Redoubt
36. Cantonment and English camp
37. Najafgarh bridge and water canal
38. Rohitta Khan Serai
41. Ragpur (?)
60. Water canal

SECTION FOUR WITH DOTS (outside the walls, from the Ridge) - LOWER LEFT

1. Jumna River
33. Signal tower
34. Metcalfe house
35. English battery
36. Cantonment and English camp
39. Kudsia Bagh
40. Arm of the Jumna

Source: columbia.edu, online

b) Bertrand after Prince Alexis Soltykoff
Vue de Dehli (View of the city of Delhi (India) in 1857)
1857
Later hand-coloured woodcut engraving on paper
9 x 12.5 in (22.86 x 31.75 cm)

Published in Le Monde Illustre, No. 20 of 29 August 1857

c) William Carpenter
The Eldest Son of the King of Delhi, His Treasurer, and Physician - from a Picture Painted, in the Palace at Delhi; by Mr. W. Carpenter
1857
Later hand coloured wood cut engraving on paper
15 x 10 in (38.1 x 25.4 cm)

Published in Illustrated London News, 1857

This fine portrait has been engraved from a picture, painted in the Fort or Palace of Delhi, by Mr. William Carpenter. The group consists of the eldest son of the King of Delhi; his Treasurer, a Hindoo; and Physician, a Mussulman; each carrying a morhrchull, a brush made of peacocks tails, to drive away the flies-which duty is really performed by servants....

d) Kutub Minar from a Photograph (possibly by John Murray) --Chandnee Chowk or the Silver Street --Peshawur Guide
1857
Later hand-coloured woodcut engraving on paper
14.5 x 10 in (36.83 x 25.9 cm)
(Three views in one sheet)

Published in Illustrated London News, August 1857

(Set of four)

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