Match List I with List II:
| List I | List II | ||
| Paintings/Cartoons on Revolt of 1857 | Painters/Newspapers | ||
| (A) | ‘Relief of Lucknow’ | (I) | Joseph Noel Paton |
| (B) | ‘In Memoriam’ | (II) | Punch |
| (C) | ‘Justice’ | (III) | Illustrated London News |
| (D) | ‘Execution of Mutineers in Peshawar’ | (IV) | Thomas Jones Barker |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
(A) ‘Relief of Lucknow’ — this matches (IV) Thomas Jones Barker. Barker painted it in 1859 to celebrate the British heroes who saved the English and repressed the rebels.
(B) ‘In Memoriam’ — this matches (I) Joseph Noel Paton. Paton painted it two years after the mutiny; it shows English women and children huddled in a circle, waiting for dishonour, violence and death.
(C) ‘Justice’ — this matches (II) Punch. ‘Justice’ appeared in Punch on 12 September 1857: an allegorical female figure of justice, with a sword in one hand and a shield in the other, tramples sepoys under her feet.
(D) ‘Execution of Mutineers in Peshawar’ — this matches (III) Illustrated London News. This scene of 12 rebels hanging in a row, with cannons all around them, appeared in the Illustrated London News on 3 October 1857.
Tip: This question is built on the captions of the chapter’s pictures. Read every figure of the chapter with its caption: the painter, the journal and the date are asked too.
Note: A same/similar question was asked in CUET (UG) in the papers below.
| 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
| – | – | – | 09-06 S1 12-06 S3* | – |
* A similar question.
NCERT (2026-27): “5.1 Celebrating the saviours … British pictures offer a variety of images that were meant to provoke a range of different emotions and reactions. Some of them commemorate the British heroes who saved the English and repressed the rebels. ‘Relief of Lucknow’, painted by Thomas Jones Barker in 1859, is an example of this type.… 5.2 English women and the honour of Britain … ‘In Memoriam’ (Fig. 10.11) was painted by Joseph Noel Paton two years after the mutiny. You can see English women and children huddled in a circle, looking helpless and innocent, seemingly waiting for the inevitable – dishonour, violence and death.…”
Fig. 10.13 Justice, Punch, 12 September 1857
Fig. 10.16 Execution of mutinous sepoys in Peshawar, Illustrated London News, 3 October 1857
Fig. 10.10 “Relief of Lucknow”, painted by Thomas Jones Barker, 1859
Fig. 10.11 “In Memoriam”, by Joseph Noel Paton, 1859 |
