2-981-832 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Illuminations at Calcutta in honour of the Prince of Wales, from a sketch by one of our special artists, 1876. 'The illuminations...afforded, from different points of view, a spectacle to be greatly admired...[View looking] westward...along the great fashionable thoroughfare of Chowringhee. This is open to the Esplanade on the left hand, beyond which, in the left hand background, is seen Government House...The dome of the Post Office appears near that part of the background. The column of the Ochterlony monument, overlooking the Governor's Tank, is in the middle of the open ground, the Maidan. The tower above the houses of the city, looking directly over the tank, is that of the telegraph-office....the Chowringhee road [is] thronged with carriages and native spectators on foot...A triumphal arch, at the end of Chowringhee, terminates the view along the street'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.