Oriental Scenery/Part 3/Plate 5

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2285740Oriental Scenery — Third Series, Plate 5Thomas Daniell and William Daniell

No. V.

THE PUNJ MAHALLA GATE, LUCKNOW.

The plainness and simplicity of this edifice is more striking than the richness of its decorations; a circumstance seldom occurring in gateways belonging to Mahomedan princes. This gate leads to a palace erected by Nawaub Sujah ul Dowla, a building of considerable magnificence, and which has been much enlarged by his son Nawaub Assoph ul Dowla.

Lucknow is six hundred and forty-nine miles from Calcutta on the river Goomty, which falls into the Ganges near the village of Siedabad below Benares.


The Punj Mahalla Gate, Lucknow.