Panjab. Entry into Lahore from the parade ground

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Tinted lithograph From Recollections of India drawn in stone by J. D. Harding from the Original Drawings by the Honourable Charles Stewart Harding London: Thomas McLean, 1847

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After graduating from Oxford, Charles Stewart Hardinge accompanied his father, the governor-general, on a trip to India which inspired this book of images. Drawn by hand and then transferred onto stone (a process called lithography), we can see here a parade entering the city of Lahore in modern day Pakistan. The immense wall, minarets and domes speak to the Indo-Gothic architecture introduced to the region by British imperialists during the 19th century.

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