Imperial Assemblage at Delhi 1877. Highly decorated Princely elephants

An interesting image from the 1877 Imperial Assemblage in Delhi, 11¼ x 8¼ visible phot image, showing richly decorated elephants that would be taking part in the grand display of Princes and high British officials in thamphitheatre. The fact that the howdahs are unoccupied suggests that this image was perhaps taken at a rehearsal, there are a notable number of photgraphers in the stand to the left. Attendantswalk alongside the elephants as they would in the parade. The original print was rather faded but the shadow to the lower part of my image is my own shadow. [I’m not as skilled as the original photographer.] feb11/1

Like all the images in this category this is a copy made by our printer in exactly the same size as the original which we sold at some time in the last ten years. It is printed on thin white card leaving a margin around the image. These were made for our own reference purposes and we are now releasing the very few extra copies we had made at the time from an original now in a private or institutional collection. Read more at the head of the category.