296 x 233 mm. View looking across the Mottee Jheel ornamental lake towards the N facade of Government House, Barrackpore. The building is in the form of a single high storey and attic resting on a rusticated arcade above which projects an octastyle Tuscan portico. This finely composed photograph fulfils all the conditions laid down by Bourne for a picturesque arrangement: five Indian figures are grouped in the foreground while the building itself, with the requisite stretch of water, is framed by the over hanging branch of a tree. The cantonment of Barrackpore is situated on the banks of the Hughli some 15 miles north of Calcutta and became the summer residence of Governor Generals and Viceroys. Lord We11es1ey took over the existing commander's bungalow in 1810 and appointed Charles Wyatt to make changes and repairs. This building was however pulled down in 1804 to make way for a more substantial residence to be designed by Thomas Anbury, but this building in turn had not proceeded far at the time of We11es1ey's recall in 1805 (see Y3022AA/1). The building seen here (again, probably to the designs of Thomas Anbury who was at this period Superintendent of Buildings at Barrackpore) was completed around 1815 in the Governor Generalship of Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Earl of Moira. A detailed history of the house and its occupants can be found in Curzon, vol. 11, pp. 3046, where this photograph is reproduced. Bourne 1746.