Cawnpore, the Memorial Well
name: label: Photographer
content: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912
place: label: Place
content: Kanpur (India)
label: Place
content: Uttar Pradesh (India)
creator: label: Photographer
content: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912
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content: Still Prints of Asia
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Cawnpore (Kanpur) was the site of conflict during the 1857 Indian Rebellion.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 interior of the monument, see A1999.1_8
For information on Samuel Bourne, see A1999.1_4
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Albumen print (image 23 x 29 cm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1860s
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 4, Item 3
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_17
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Albumen prints -- 1860-1880
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: One albumen print of the exterior of the Memorial Well in Cawnpore (Kanpur), India. View from an angle with a few Indian men in the center of the photograph. Signed "Bourne 1205" in the center of the image.