View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:11253734
Classification:
Archives & Manuscripts
Notes:
An album of autograph material, letterpress articles and ephemera relating to Frank Salisbury's frescoes for Victoria Memorial Hall in Calcutta, a building commissioned by Lord Curzon in 1903 and designed by the architect William Emerson. The album includes pencil diagrams of the fresco cycle settings, autograph and typed letters from Salisbury to the palace and the India office relating to the panels, blueprints, 3 albumen prints of the interior of the building, and other correspondence.
Subject Terms:
Salisbury, Frank O. (Frank Owen), 1874-1962 | Emerson, W. (William), 1843-1924. | Victoria Memorial (Museum : India) | Mural painting and decoration. | Art -- India. | Architecture, Colonial -- India -- Kolkata. | Memorials -- India -- Kolkata. | Museum buildings -- India -- Kolkata. | Kolkata (India) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
