A panorama in 12 folds showing the procession of the Emperor Bahadur Shah to celebrate the feast of the 'Eid al-Fitr 1843. Bahadur Shah Zafar on the elephant, and the heir apparent in the third elephant.
[From 'Reminiscences of Imperial Delhi’, an album consisting of 89 folios containing approximately 130 paintings of views of the Mughal and pre-Mughal monuments of Delhi, as well as other contemporary material, with an accompanying manuscript text written by Sir Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe (1795-1853), the Governor-General’s Agent at the imperial court.
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