Officers of Elephant Battery, Jhansi (recto); Men of Elephant Battery, Jhansi (verso)

c. 1882–87

Raja Deen Dayal

(Indian, 1844–1905)

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Culture

India

Medium

albumen print

Measurements

Image: 19.3 x 27 cm (7 5/8 x 10 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

John L. Severance Fund 2023.121.8

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Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

Raja Deen Dayal is regarded now, and was considered during his lifetime, to be India’s most important 19th-century photographer.

Description

These photographs are part of an album, now disassembled, of around 105 photographs taken in India between 1885 and summer 1887 that provide glimpses into the lives of the British colonial elite and royal and upper-class Indians. The museum holds another group of 37 pictures from this album (2016.266), which was probably commissioned by a British civil servant visiting or working in India around 1888 as a personal souvenir of his experiences there.