The Sepoy Rebellion by Joseph Boggs Beale, a powerful magic lantern slide, was published in 1899. Beale was America's foremost Victorian magic lantern artist. It was his only slide of India among the 2,000 that he drew.

According to Terry Borton, who has collected most of Beale's slides, "he created the black and white drawing, under the art direction of C. W. Briggs, a wholesaler to about 90 different magic lantern distributors in the US, including all of the biggest. The Beale master drawing was photographed at the Briggs plant, photographically reduced, and printed to glass negatives, which were then used to mass-produce glass positives, usually in "lights" of 4 slides at a time. Only a few slides might be made, or thousands, depending on the popularity of the image. (This image would be on the low end, I am sure.) Once the slides were finished, they might be sold as black and white, or tinted in the factory. Briggs was known as the best colorist in the country."

The slide reflects how thoroughly stories from the Mutiny, or first War of Independence, were written to emphasize the outrages upon British women. Those visions had taken over the memory of the event in the English-speaking world. According to Terry, there are few such disturbing scenes in Beale's entire oeuvre.