The Ashta Dick Palager. Eight celestial personages or Demi-Gods considered to rule & protect the respective regions in which they are placed before.
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Pen and ink drawing of square diagram showing the guardian of the eight directions, the Ashta-dikpalas, from the Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple in Madurai, from an 'Album of 51 drawings (57 folios) of buildings, sculpture and paintings in the temple and choultry of Tirumala Nayyak at Madura. c.180...
Pen and ink drawing of Purusha Mriga and Kamadhenu, from the Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple in Madurai, from an 'Album of 51 drawings (57 folios) of buildings, sculpture and paintings in the temple and choultry of Tirumala Nayyak at Madura. c.1801-05', by an anonymous artist working in the South I...
[Details from sculptures. A yali, some mythical creatures and a trompe d'oiel elephant and water buffalo]
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Pen and ink drawing of sculptures from the Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple in Madurai, from an 'Album of 51 drawings (57 folios) of buildings, sculpture and paintings in the temple and choultry of Tirumala Nayyak at Madura. c.1801-05', by an anonymous artist working in the South India/Madurai style...
[Column decorated with an equestrian figure at the entrance of the Pudu Mandapam, Madurai]
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Pen and ink drawing of a column with an equestrian figure at the entrance of the Pudu Mandapam at the Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple, from an 'Album of 51 drawings (57 folios) of buildings, sculpture and paintings in the temple and choultry of Tirumala Nayyak at Madura. c.1801-05', by an anonymous...
[Column in the Pudu Mandapam, Madurai, showing Tirumalai Nayaka with his wives]
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Pen and ink drawing of a column in the Pudu Mandapam at Madurai carved with the figures of Tirumalai Nayaka with his wives, from an 'Album of 51 drawings (57 folios) of buildings, sculpture and paintings in the temple and choultry of Tirumala Nayyak at Madura. c.1801-05', by an anonymous artist w...
Pen and ink drawing of a column carved with a rearing yali from the Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple at Madurai, from an 'Album of 51 drawings (57 folios) of buildings, sculpture and paintings in the temple and choultry of Tirumala Nayyak at Madura. c.1801-05', by an anonymous artist working in the ...
[Drawing of sculpted stones along the base of th large gopuram on the east side of the Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple, Madurai]
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Pen and ink drawing of the unfinished Raya Gopura in the Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple in Madurai from an 'Album of 51 drawings (57 folios) of buildings, sculpture and paintings in the temple and choultry of Tirumala Nayyak at Madura. c.1801-05', by an anonymous artist working in the South India/...
[Drawing of sculpted stones along the base of the large gopuram on the east side of the Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple, Madurai]
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Pen and ink drawing of the east gopura in the Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple in Madurai from an 'Album of 51 drawings (57 folios) of buildings, sculpture and paintings in the temple and choultry of Tirumala Nayyak at Madura. c.1801-05', by an anonymous artist working in the South India/Madurai sty...
Album of 156 drawings chiefly of architecture and sculpture in S. India. 1803-08
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Book 12'. 156 drawings (185 folios) chiefly of architecture and sculpture in South India. 1803-08. The drawings are divided into roughly 5 groups: ff.1-51 specimens of architecture mainly from Kolar, Sravana Belgola, Kanchipuram and Shimoga; ff.52-68 sculpture at Halebid; ff.69-94 sculpture at Am...
folio 1. inscribed in ink: Hindoo Antiquities. A Collection of Drawings of Architecture & Sculpture Civil & Religious Shewing the State & Progress of design Fancy & Taste Exemplified in Existing Hindoo Monuments Comprehending a Variety of Specimens some of them, previous to the Ea...
