1-216-793 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Lucknow, India, 1893. The capital of the state of Oudh, Lucknow was the scene of a famous siege during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, when the British held out for 87 days against the surrounding rebels. An engraving from James Taylor's The Age We Live In: A History of the Nineteenth Century, From the Peace of 1815 to the Present Time, William Mackenzie, (London, 1893).