"Mutinous Sepoys Dividing Spoil," a steel engraving, c.1858
Source: ebay, Oct. 2001
British soldiers looting the Qaisar Bagh, Lucknow, after its recapture
Source: ebay, Oct. 2001
"The engraving depicts the 'Times' correspondent
looking on at the sacking of the Kaiser Bagh, after the capture of
Lucknow
on March 15, 1858. "'Is this string of little white stones (pearls)
worth
anything, Gentlemen?' asks the plunderer."
From 'The History of the Indian Mutiny' by Charles Ball (London: London
Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd., 1858).
The Red Fort was of course looted too , and parts of it were heavily damaged as well (Illustrated London News, 1858): very large scans of *the upper picture* and *the lower picture*
Source: ebay, Mar. 2010
"The Plunder of the Kaiserbagh," William Howard Russell, 'My Diary in India', vol. 1, 1860
Source: ebay, Jan. 2007
"Sikh Troops Dividing the Spoil Taken from Mutineers," from 'History of the Indian Mutiny', c.1860; with modern hand coloring
Source: http://www.antiqueprints.com/products.php?cat=34
(downloaded Dec. 2004)
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