On the Alipur Road

Mortimer Menpes

1903

Watercolor

Source: The Durbar, facing p. 96

“The natives during the Durbar were so overcome with the magnificence and splendour of the proceedings that they could nothing but stand by the roadside all day long in wide-eyed,open-mouthed wonder.”

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Related material

• Menpes’s paintings of street scenes during the Durbar

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Bibliography

Menpes, Mortimer. The Durbar. Text by Dorothy Menpes. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1903. Internet Archive version of a copy in the University of California at Los Angeles Library. Web. 27 May 2017.

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