Gore Ouseley
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Sir Gore Ouseley, 1st Baronet,, was a British entrepreneur, linguist and diplomat. He was born in 1770 and died at Hall Barn Park, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire in 1844. He negotiated an important tre
Sir Gore Ouseley with two distinguished orders
The English delegation at the Court of Fath Ali Shah in 1808: John Malcolm, Harford Jones and Gore Ouseley.
Banyan leaves and fruit – A watercolour from the collection of Gore Ouseley – now at Kew Gardens.
Portrait of Mirza Abul Hasan by Thomas Lawrence, 1810. Ouseley commissioned the work while the Persian envoy was in London
Dilkusha Kothi
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Dilkusha Kothi is the remains of an eighteenth-century house built in the English baroque style in the quiet Dilkusha area of Lucknow in India. Today there are only a few towers and external walls as
Gore Ouseley
…the British Government and posted in Lucknow he became a friend of the local Nawab Saadat Ali Khan and was responsible for building a palace called Dilkusha Kothi on the banks of the Gomti near Lucknow. This palace stood for about fifty years until it was damaged in the Siege of Lucknow. The palace was a copy of…
Dilkusha Kothi in 1858 pictured by Francis Beato
An engraving of the north front of Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumberland, England
Plate 09, The Dil Khoosa Palace during the Siege of Lucknow in 1857
The Dilkusha with Lucknow in the Distance, 1866, William Simpson, Yale Center for British Art