Calcutta. The Esplanade

Steel-engraving by E. Radclyffe after Allom; view of government buildings, entrance arch etc. on riverbank, soldiers parading in foreground. From 'Gallery of Historical Portraits' (ca. 1880) Steel-engraving by E. Radclyffe after Allom; view of government buildings, entrance arch etc. on riverbank, soldiers parading in foreground. From 'Gallery of Historical Portraits' (ca. 1880) Represents the official announcement stating that the political authority of the East India Company had ceased to exist, and that the Government of India had been transferred to the management of the Crown. Oblong; margins; soiled. N.Y., Rockman Prints, 1957.