Close view of temple, showing details of moulding at base of tower and sculpture niche of Varaha, Garhwa, Allahabad District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Sculpture panel on the north face of the Dashavatara Temple, Deogarh: Vishnu on Garuda rescuing the elephant Gajendra. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Close view of the arches in the façade of the Bara Gumbad Masjid, Delhi. Photographer: [?] Henry Hardy Cole.
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Incorrectly identified as the mosque at Sikander Lodi's Tomb in Bloch's list. Photograph attributed to Cole in Theodor Bloch, A list of the photographic negatives ... in the collection of The Indian Museum... (Calcutta: 1900), but probably commissioned rather than taken by him.
Frieze from the upper monastery at Nuttu, Peshawar: Buddha's pyre and worship of his ashes. Photographer: Serrot, M.
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This is one of a series of photographs taken for H. H. Cole at Mardan by Serrot, and not, as stated in T. Bloch, 'A list of the photographic negatives of Indian antiquities in the collection of the Indian Museum: with which is incorporated the list of similar negatives in the possession of the t...
Small architectural pillars, kneeling figures and fragments from the base of stupa, from the upper monastery at Nuttu, Peshawar District. Photographer: Serrot, M.
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This is one of a series of photographs taken for H. H. Cole at Mardan by Serrot, and not, as stated in T. Bloch, 'A list of the photographic negatives of Indian antiquities in the collection of the Indian Museum: with which is incorporated the list of similar negatives in the possession of the t...
Heads of Buddha and Bodhisattva statues, and sculpture slab representing worship of a stupa, from the Swat Valley [Loriyan Tangai]. Photographer: Alexander Edwin Caddy.
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Theodore Bloch, in A list of the photographic negatives of Indian antiquities in the collection of the Indian Museum: with which is incorporated the list of similar negatives in the possession of the India Office (Calcutta: 1900), notes that the sculptures are 'said to be in Major Deane's posses...
Close view of colossal statue of mother and child in the Gadarmal Temple, Pathari, Bhopal State. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography Credited to Beglar, but possibly by Cousens (in which case the date must be amended to 1892-94). Described in J. D. Beglar, 'Report of a tour in Bundelkhand and Malwa, 1871-72...' (A.S.I. vol VII, Calcutta, 1878), p. 70: '...The principal statue inside is a life...