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1. Photo 978

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 978
Title:
Gaur: its ruins and inscriptions. By the late John Henry Ravenshaw, B.C.S. Edited, with considerable additions and alterations, by his widow. Photographer(s): Ravenshaw, John Henry
Scope & Content:
Imprint: London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1, Paternoster Square. 1878. Folio, half-leather, brown buckram boards (bound 1984), measuring 352 x 262 mm; edges gilt; pp. xii, 102; containing 45 Woodburytype prints of buildings at Gaur, Old Malda and Pandua, mounted one to a page, recto only, on t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
46 items

2. Photo 978(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 978(1)
Title:
Gaur. Dakhil Gate. North-East view. Photographer: Ravenshaw, John Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across tank towards ruined gateway, overgrown with vegetation. [Woodburytype, 235x186mm]. Subjects = Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Islamic); printed books; Ravenshaw, J.H., 'Gaur: its ruins and inscriptions' (1878); Woodburytypes
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 978(1a)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 978(1a)
Title:
Gaur. Sagar Dighi. Photographer: Ravenshaw, John Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the massive tank. [Woodburytype, 241x185mm]. Subjects = printed books; Ravenshaw, J.H., 'Gaur: its ruins and inscriptions' (1878); tanks; water supplies; Woodburytypes
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 978(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 978(2)
Title:
Gaur. Tomb of Makhdum Akhi Sirajuddin. Photographer: Ravenshaw, John Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards entrance, showing relief decoration on adjoining stucco walls: 'At the north-west corner of the tank, but approachable only through a heavy bamboo jungle, is an endowment to Makhdum Shah, a saint whose tomb is still standing. This is conspic...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 978(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 978(3)
Title:
Gaur. Janjan Miyan Mosque. Photographer: Ravenshaw, John Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of façade, decorated with relief panels in stucco over brick, with three arched entrances. 'Near the mausoleum stands a very elegant mosque of embossed brick, known as the Jan Jan Miyan mosque, so called after a lady of that name. It is supported inside by ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 978(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 978(4)
Title:
Gaur. Sadulpur Ghat. Photographer: Ravenshaw, John Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the Bhagirathi River towards the ghat, crowded with people on its stone steps. 'At a little more than a mile from the mosque, a bye path leads to the Bhagirathi River at Sadulapur Ghat, a place of peculiar sanctity to the Hindus. Throughut th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 978(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 978(5)
Title:
Gaur. Golden Mosque. South View. Photographer: Ravenshaw, John Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the façade of the Bara Sona Mosque (Golden Mosque). 'On some raised ground immediately to the south of Ramkel stands the Baradiwari, or Great Golden Mosque, perhaps the finest memorial of Guar. An arched corridor running along the whole front ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 978(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 978(6)
Title:
Gaur. Golden Mosque. North View. Photographer: Ravenshaw, John Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View along façade. See note at print 5. [Woddburytype, 237x187mm]. Subjects = Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Islamic); mosques; printed books; Ravenshaw, J.H., 'Gaur: its ruins and inscriptions' (1878); Woodburytypes
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 978(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 978(7)
Title:
Gaur. Corridor of Golden Mosque. Photographer: Ravenshaw, John Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along arched corridor. See note at print 5. [Woodburytype, 176x176mm]. Subjects = Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Islamic); mosques; printed books; Ravenshaw, J.H., 'Gaur: its ruins and inscriptions' (1878); Woodburytypes
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 978(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 978(8)
Title:
Gaur. Plan of Fort. Enlarged from Creighton's map of 1801 [lithograph]. Photographer: Ravenshaw, John Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of gateway, in ruinous condition and covered in vegetation: 'Passing through the corridor of the Golden Mosque, which sufficiently large to admit mounted elephants, the huge rampart of the fortress, covered with forest trees, faces the view to the s...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item