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'The Imperial Assemblage at Delhi', 1877, (1901). Queen Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India on 1 January 1877. The ceremony was attended by Viceroy of India Lord Lytton, British officers and colonial officials, and by numerous maharajas and princes. Photograph of 'The Imperial Assemblage held at Delhi, 1 January 1877', painting made 1877-1880, in the Royal Collection. From "The Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts, Vol. II. - To The Abdication of Yakub Khan", by J. Maclaren Cobban. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901] (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/The Print Collector)