‘View of Stone Bridge from Moosah Bagh End of the City’, 1858 circa (litho)

‘View of Stone Bridge from Moosah Bagh End of the City’, 1858 circa. Lithograph from ‘General Views and Special Points of Interest of the City of Lucknow’, a series of 27 coloured lithographs by R M Bryson, E Walker, F Jones after Lieutenant-Colonel D S Dodgson, published by Day and Son, 1 September 1860. The stone bridge at Lucknow was built across the River Gumti in 1780. Construction began during the reign of Nawab Safdar Jang (1739-1753), but it was not completed until his grandson, Nawab Asaf-ud-daulah, was on the throne. During the Indian Mutiny (1857-1859), Thomas Henry Kavanagh (1821-1882) Assistant Commissioner of Oudh, guided Sir Colin Campbell’s relief force across the stone bridge to the besieged Residency. This was after he had disguised himself and swam across the Ganges, narrowly escaping death in the process.