Vintage car outside Victoria Memorial

Black and white photograph featuring the view of a 1930's Plymouth car standing outside Victoria Memorial Calcutta. Hand painting method of manually adding colour to a black-and-white photograph, generally either to heighten the realism of the photograph or for artistic purpose. Hand-coloured photographs were most popular in the mid- to late-19th century before the invention of colour photography and some firms specialized in producing such hand-coloured photographs.