The Fakhr ul-Masajid (1729), or "Pride of Mosques"
Source: The Golden Calm: An English Lady's Life in Moghul Delhi (Reminiscences by Emily, Lady Clive Bayley, and by her father, Sir Thomas Metcalfe), ed. M. M. Kaye (New York: Viking Press, 1980), p. 130. CU scan, Dec. 1999.
"The Fakhrool Musajid was built by Kuneez i Fatima widow of Shoojaat Khan about A.D. 1729, to the memory of her husband who was one of the confidential followers of Nizam ool Moolk, Minister of Mohummud Shah. It adjoins the Estate and is nearly opposite to the Church erected by the late Colonel Skinner C.B. and has been of late years repaired at no inconsiderable expense by that distinguished Officer, for the convenience of his followers military and menial." (caption by Sir Thomas Metcalfe, c.1840's, p. 130)
*"View of Delhi," by W. Purser, c.1840 (published by Samuel Walker, Boston, c.1850)*
Source: ebay, Feb. 2006
"Baoli, & Remains of Jehanghir's Palace, Delhi," by Bacon and Dibden (A. Fullarton, c.1848); *a very large scan of this engraving*
Source: ebay, Aug. 2006
*"Delhi, Ancient Gateway," an engraving by Thomas Dibdin (A, Fullarton, c.1848)*
Source: ebay, Feb. 2007
*View of Delhi and the surrounding country; a print from the 1850's (with later hand coloring)*
Source: ebay, Nov. 2006
*An aerial view of Delhi and the surrounding country. Lithograph, by Andrew Maclure, c.1857* (BL)
"The City of Delhi," from the Illustrated
London News, 1857; with *a very large scan of
this engraving*;
also *"Bridge at Delhi
leading to the palace of the Mogul, from the Agra Road"*; also *"House recently built near the Lahore Gate of
Delhi"*; also *"The bank at Delhi"*;
also *"'The hall
of Justice' at Delhi"*; also *"Delhi, the
scene of the Late Massacre by the Sepoys, from the river Jumna"*
Source: ebay, Sept. 2009
"Shah Jehanabad or New Delhi," by Brandard (James S. Virtue Co., London, 1858)
Source: ebay, Sept. 2005
Source: http://www.archive.org/details/indianempirehist03martuoft
(downloaded Jan. 2009)
*Moree
Gate, Delhi; a photo by John Murray, 1858* (BL);
also: *Water
Gate of Palace, Delhi* [*Murray 1858b*]
*Zenut-ool Musjeed, Delhi; a photo by John Murray, 1858* (BL); actually "Zinat ul-Masajid," this mosque was built by one of Aurangzeb's daughters outside the Delhi Gate
A distant view of the city, in a steel engraving by Ramage and Brandard from the 1870's
Source: ebay, Oct. 2001
"Environs of Delhi," a print from 1873
Source: ebay, Nov. 2006
*"Bargaining in the bazaar at Delhi," from the Illustrated London News, 1892*
Source: ebay, Aug. 2007
Source: ebay, Aug. 2007
*A detail from "A Street Scene in Delhi," a lithograph by L. Raven Hill, 1903*; *the full scene*
Source: ebay, Jan. 2006
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