English Homes in India

This is an artist’s imagination of the danger faced by British families in India during the 1857 Uprising. In the engraving, a mother can be seen nursing a baby while a toddler sits close by. Two revolutionaries enter the room, one holding a sword dripping with what looks like blood and the other wielding a torch, both clearly bent on destruction. Such illustrations were common during the late 1850s, published to project more widely the British perspective of the events of the 1857 Uprising.