Calcutta Skyline Panorama India Antique Print Old Victorian Picture 1899

A black & white print, from a disbound book The Queen's Empire 2 1899 with another print on the reverse. 

Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 11.5" x 9" or 29.5cm x 23cm, including text and border.

Actual picture size approx 8.875" x 6.5" or 22.5cm x 16.5cm

This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print, please view the scans as they form part of the description.  

All prints will be sent bagged and in a boarded envelope for maximum protection.  

While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item.

Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)

CALCUTTA.
Our picture gives us some idea of the vast extent of the great official capital of British India. We are here looking down upon the top of the High Court, a hanasome building, of which an illustration appears in another part of this work. Calcutta has been sufficiently long in the possession of Europeans to have become exceedingly " Western "in its architecture, at least in those portions of the city in which Europeans principally reside. It does not take long, however, to pass into the native quarter in which the "East" with its manners, customs, and habits makes itself apparent to the traveller through every sense. During the hot season the Government of India leaves Calcutta and transacts its business in the higher and healthier climate of Simla.