2-711-089 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'John Nicholson', 1851, (1901). Portrait of British soldier John Nicholson (1821-1857), who was a political officer in the frontier provinces of the British Empire in India. Nicholson played a noted part in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny, devising particularly cruel punishments for the supposed mutineers. He died aged 35 as a result of wounds received in the taking of Delhi. After a daguerrotype. From "The Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts, Vol. I. - To The End of the Indian Mutiny", by J. Maclaren Cobban. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901]