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INDIA - PHOTOGRAPHY BEATO (FELICE) Six photographs of Amritsar including the Golden Temple complex, 1858-1859 image 1
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INDIA - PHOTOGRAPHY BEATO (FELICE)
Six photographs of Amritsar including the Golden Temple complex, 1858-1859

19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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INDIA - PHOTOGRAPHY

BEATO (FELICE) Six photographs of Amritsar including the Golden Temple complex, lightly albumenized prints, some numbered in negative, one laid down, approximately 250 x 300mm., 1858-1859

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After documenting the aftermath of the Siege of Lucknow, Beato travelled to Amritsar. He took some of the first photographs of the Harmandir Sahib or Golden Temple, and produced a series of 19 images of the temple complex. It appears that Beato did not produce many prints of his Amritsar series as he probably thought they would be less commercial than his images of the destruction wrought in the wake of the 1857 uprising.

Comprising: the Golden Temple; another view (numbered U5); view of the Akal Takht (also known as the Akal Bunga) of the Golden Temple (U9); Gateway of the Ram Bagh (U16); Gurdwara Baba Atal (number cropped, perhaps U12); Amritsar street scene (U44, laid down).

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