Entrance façade of the Kalyana Mandapa, Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple, Madurai. Photographer: Nicholas and Company
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Genre: Architectural Photography Printed from a broken glass plate. Credited to Cole in Bloch's list, but almost certainly part of the series taken for Cole by Nicholas & Co. of Madras. Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indi...
View looking along the Mutarli Mandapa, Madurai. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
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Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); architectural elements; Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Hindu); interiors; mandapas; temples
View looking along the Mutarli Mandapa, Madurai. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards a doorway, with the length of the mandapa beyond. Much of the print is in total darkness, apart from this central area. Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series...
View of the Teppakulam Tank looking towards the temple on the central island, Madurai. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
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Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Hindu); tanks; temples
Front view of Trimul Naik's Palace, Madurai. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
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Genre: Architectural Photography Poor quality print. Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Hindu); palaces
Courtyard and arcades in Trimul Naik's Palace, Madurai. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
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Genre: Architectural Photography Showing arcade of massive columns. Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Hindu); palaces
Rear view of turban with diamonds, rubies, emeralds and pearl in a gold setting, from the Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple, Madurai. Photographer: Nicholas and Company
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Reproduced as a chromolithograph in in H.H. Cole, Preservation of National Monuments in India (vol II, (?)Calcutta, c. 1884), part 10, Great Temple of Siva and his consort at Madura, pl. iv, the illustration dated 1882. Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Surv...
Front view of turban with diamonds, rubies, emeralds and pearl in a gold setting, from the Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple, Madurai. Photographer: Nicholas and Company
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Reproduced as a chromolithograph in in H.H. Cole, Preservation of National Monuments in India (vol II, (?)Calcutta, c. 1884), part 10, Great Temple of Siva and his consort at Madura, pl. iv, the illustration dated 1882. Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Surv...
View from inside of the north gopura of the Ramalingeshvara Temple, Rameswaram. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
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Genre: Architectural Photography Roadway between the two halves of the gopura, which looks like little more than a tall wall: '[The gopuras] on the north and south are hardly higher than the wall in which they stand, and are consquently called the ruined gateways. They are, however, of comparat...
