2-661-015 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Lord Curzon in his Study at Delhi', 1903. Also known as the Imperial Durbar, the Delhi Durbar was held three times, in 1877, 1903, and 1911, at the height of the British Empire to mark the succession of an Emperor or Empress of India. Two full weeks of festivities were devised in meticulous detail by Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India. From The Durbar, by Mortimer Menpes. Text by Dorothy Menpes. [Adam and Charles Black, London, 1903]