ATKINSON, Captain George Francklin

Fine hand-coloured lithograph after Captain George Francklin Atkinson depicting the capture of the Mughal princes following the fall of Delhi during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Lithographed by William Simpson and printed by Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen, the composition portrays the dramatic confrontation before Humayun’s Tomb, where the princes sought refuge prior to their capture by Captain William Hodson. Combining eyewitness authenticity with exceptional Victorian lithography, the print documents one of the most consequential and controversial episodes of the rebellion and the final collapse of Mughal political authority. It ranks among the most historically significant plates in The Campaign in India 1857–58.