ca. 1870Calcutta
Town Hall, Calcutta
Samuel Bourne. The catalog title says about 1870. No separate date is printed on this file.
Street photograph
ca. 1870·Calcutta
Town Hall, Calcutta
Samuel Bourne. The catalog title says about 1870. No separate date is printed on this file.
Street photograph · Surviving
What this plate shows
A photograph of a civic front. The Town Hall: a columned portico, a balustrade, carriages on the open ground in front. Bourne, about 1870. Masonry, not a steel frame. The building’s completion, 1813, is not the date of the exposure.
- Image type
- Street photograph
- Structure
- Calcutta Town Hall, on the Esplanade.
- Region
- Asia
- Documented completion
- In use 1813.
- Architect
- Col. John Garstin.
- Present status
- Surviving — The building still stands. The date “ca. 1870” is the catalog title, not a year on the print.
- Source
- Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, TM-60003661. Scale of that scan.
- License
- CC BY 4.0. Credit: Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, TM-60003661; photographer Samuel Bourne.