Harriet Tytler

Harriet Christina Tytler (née Earle; 3 October 1828 – 24 November 1907) was a British artist, writer, and a pioneer photographer.

[2] In her autobiography An Englishwoman in India Harriet records in detail her experiences as a child in various military stations to which her father was transferred.

On 2 March 1848 she married Major Robert Christopher Tytler, whose wife had died fourteen months earlier.

In May 1857 the couple were resident in the military cantonments outside Delhi, where Robert Tytler's regiment, the 38th Bengal Native Infantry was one of the first to mutiny during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

Because she was heavily pregnant, Harriet was allowed to stay on and was the only British woman present at the Siege of Delhi.

[11] Although never having painted before she began work on a large canvas of 6x18 feet, to depict from memory the palace of the Emperor of Delhi as a cyclorama.