Dec 5, 2014

From India


Outram Statue at Victoria Memorial, Kolkata
Watercolour painting by Samir Biswas, 2004



Lieutenant General Sir James Outram (1803-1863) by John Henry Foley (1818-74), R. A. Bronze. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1861. Unveiled by Lord Napier on the Queen's birthday in 1874, near the junction of Chowringhee Road and Park Street, Calcutta. Today it stands in the grounds of the Victoria Memorial.

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