‘Banks’s House’, Lucknow, 1858 circa (litho)

‘Banks’s House’, Lucknow, 1858 circa. Lithograph from ‘General Views and Special Points of Interest of the City of Lucknow’, a series of 27 coloured lithographs by R M Bryson, E Walker, F Jones after Lieutenant-Colonel D S Dodgson, published by Day and Son, 1 September 1860. Originally known as the Hayat Bakhsh Kothi, the house belonged to Nawab Saadat Ali Khan (1798-1814) before being purchased by the East India Company in 1801. After the British annexation of Oudh in 1856 the house became the residence of Major John Sherbrooke Banks, the first Chief Commissioner of Lucknow and assistant to Sir Henry Lawrence, the Commissioner of Oudh. Banks was killed by a musket shot on 21 July 1857 during the Siege of Lucknow.