For a tourist, the first and foremost attraction of Calcutta is the Victoria Memorial Hall. Designed by Sir William Emerson, President of the British Institute of Architects, and built between 1906 and 1921, Victoria Memorial is a stately, spacious, monumental, and grand white marble building surrounded by exquisite gardens. It sits on the southern fringes of the great Calcutta maidan which is a vast tract of open, green land that serves as the lungs of Calcutta. Victoria Memorial is the largest repository in India for a visual history of Calcutta. It ... has a major collection of paintings, sculptures, and manuscripts from the British period. The following stamp image shows the Victoria Memorial of Calcutta.