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Language Not applicable Place Muttra, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India, Asia, South Asia Level [40] File

1. Photo 101(25)

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Photo 101(25)
Title:
Auringzebe's Mosque [Jami Masjid, Mathura]. Photographer: Murray, John
Scope & Content:
Photograph of the Jami Masjid at Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, taken by John Murray in the mid 1850s, from the Murray Collection: 'Photographic views in Agra and its vicinity'. Mathura, or Muttra, lies on the Yamuna river north of Agra and is considered to be one of the holiest Hindu cities. It beca...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mid-1850s
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 101(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 101(26)
Title:
A street at Muttra [with the Jami Masjid in the background]. Photographer: Murray, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Murray's carriage is in the street.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mid-1850s
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1003(837)

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Photo 1003(837)
Title:
Inscribed elephant capital from Kankali Tila, at Mathura. Photographer: Caney, W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Photograph of the capital, excavated by Cunningham in 1871, showing the inscription from the reign of the Kushan King Huvishka on the base. The head of the elephant has been broken off. Described in A. Cunningham, 'Report for the year 1871-72' (A.S.I. vol. III, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1872
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1003(838)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(838)
Title:
Close view of capital with four winged animals with human heads, from Cahubara mound, Mathura. Photographer: Caney, W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of the capital, laid on a pallet. Excavated by Cunningham and described in A. Cunningham, 'Report for the year 1871-72' (A.S.I. vol. III, Calcutta, 1873), p. 18. pl. iii is a lithograph clearly based on this photograph. Now in the Indian Museum, Calcu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1872
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1003(839)

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Photo 1003(839)
Title:
Five railing pillars, with dancing girls standing on dwarves Mathura. Photographer: Caney, W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Photograph of the five pillars, finely carved in deep relief, standing side by side in a garden. These were discovered in the neighbourhood, though not excavated, by Cunningham during his excavations of 1871-2. See A. Cunningham, 'Report for the year 1871-72' (A...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1872
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1003(840)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(840)
Title:
Sculpture fragments from Mathura. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Group of sculpture of female figures at the museum at Mathura. Described in A. Cunningham, 'Report of a tour in Eastern Rajputana in 1882-83' (A.S.I. vol. XX, Calcutta, 1885), p. 34: 'The sculptures exhumed have been collected together in a small local museum, w...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1003(841)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(841)
Title:
Sculpture fragments from Mathura. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography References to print 840 apply.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1003(842)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(842)
Title:
Statue of a man and lion, Mathura. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Assumed by Cunningham to be Hercules strangling the Nemaean lion and described in A. Cunningham, 'Report of a tour in the Central Provinces and Lower Gangetic Doab in 1881-82' (A.S.I. vol. XVII, Calcutta, 1884), pp. 109-10. The left half of pl. xxx appears to be based on this photograph. The pie...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880s
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1003(843)

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Photo 1003(843)
Title:
Miscellaneous sculptures from Mathura. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
Scope & Content:
Group of Kushan period sculptures - statues, railing pillar fragments, etc. - from Mathura, now in the Lucknow Museum.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s-1890s
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1003(844)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(844)
Title:
Miscellaneous sculptures from Mathura. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
Scope & Content:
Including a bacchanalian scene (see 'Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal', vol. XLIV, part I, 1875), a large statue of a standing Buddha in a diaphanous tunic (see F.S. Growse, 'Mathura: a district memoir' (2nd edition, Allahabad, 1880), plate facing p. 160), and other pieces. Now in the Lu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s-1890s
Extent:
1 item