'View from the Ochterlony Monument', Calcutta, 1865

Photograph by Samuel Bourne (1834-1912), India, Bengal, 1865.

This view forms a section of Bourne's seven-part panorama of Calcutta which was taken from the Ochterlony Monument. During the Raj, Calcutta's handsome civc and administrative buildings earned the city the title of 'City of Palaces'.

From an album of 95 photographs including views of Calcutta taken by Bourne, 1865-1870 (c).