Title

Indian Frontier Sketches: view of the camp near Nourmahal's Tomb, 1873. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Indian Frontier Sketches: view of the camp near Nourmahal's Tomb, 1873. Engraving from a sketch '...by a naval officer - Lieutenant Francis Ingram Palmer - who visited the camp...of exercise for the [British] Indian army, held in the early part of this year, under the personal superintendence of Lord Napier of Magdala, the Commander-in-Chief...The particular subjects of our Illustrations are merely two or three scenes and incidents in and around the camp. One of these is the apparition of a steam elephant, as we might call the monster of a traction engine dragging a load of beer from the Murree station along the Grand Trunk road to Hassun Abdul. It contrasted strangely, indeed, with the beasts of burden commonly used in Asia, and these were not a little terrified by meeting their new mechanical competitor on the road'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM25A13_212

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

17,0Mo (1,8Mo) / 31,6cm x 13,5cm / 3735 x 1593 (300dpi)

Keywords

animal people male job man men India Indian arts country art guy occupation British elephant Indian elephant location century empire Britain profession newspapers press print B&W frontier engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W beast of burden beasts of burden Indian elephants nineteenth century The Print Collector British Empire British Raj Hindoostan Illustrated London News imperialism mahout Raj wood engraving ILN newspaper Unknown The Raj British India mahouts 19th-century The Illustrated London News Francis Ingram Palmer Palmer Francis Ingram