Cawnpore, Memorial Well
name: label: Photographer
content: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912
place: label: Place
content: Kanpur (India)
creator: label: Photographer
content: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912
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content: Still Prints of Asia
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The town of Cawnpore (Kanpur) was the site of conflict during the 1857 Indian Rebellion. The monument memorializes the massacre of 200 women and children and the disposal of their bodies into a nearby well. The central statue is a standing angel, designed by Carlo Marochetti and constructed in 1860. After India declared independence in 1947, the statue was moved to the nearby Kanpur Memorial Church. 

For an image of the exterior of the memorial, see A1999.1_17.
For information on Samuel Bourne and Bourne & Shepard, see A1999.1_4
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Albumen print
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1860s-1880s
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 2, Item 4
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A1999.01, Item FSA.A1999.01_8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Albumen prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: One albumen print of the interior statue of the Cawnpore Memorial Well, circa 1860s-1880s. Signed "Bourne 1206" in the lower left corner of image.