Genre: Architectural Photography Sepia postcard, divided back, published by Raphael Tuck and Sons ('specially published for Commercial Union, 15K Lindsay Street, Calcutta').
General view of a group of small ruined temples at Deoli, Manbhum District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography 'List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal' (Calcutta, 1896), pp. 554-555. J. D. Beglar, 'Report of a tour through the Bengal Provinces...in 1872-73' (A.S.I. vol. VIII, Calcutta, 1878), pp. 189: '...the small village of Deoli, so named from a group of temples still s...
Torana in front of a modern Jain temple, Sironi Khurd, Jhansi District. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the torana or gateway. The negative has been blocked out along the edges of the structure in order to separate the gateway from the background of trees. A. Führer, 'The Monumental Antiquities and Inscriptions in the North-Western Provinces and Ou...
Five railing pillars, with dancing girls standing on dwarves Mathura. Photographer: Caney, W.
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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...
Fragment of the arch of a sculptured Jain torana (reverse side), from Mathura. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
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Drawing of this piece reproduced in Vincent A. Smith, 'The Jain Stupa and other antiquities of Mathura' (Allahabad, 1901), pl. 19: 'There is nothing in the sculptures of this torana to indicate whether the ceremony depicted was Jain or Buddhist; but the fact that the slabs were found not far fro...
General view of excavations of the Jain stupa at Kankali Tila, Mathura. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along excavated trench. Reproduced in photogravure in Vincent A. Smith, 'The Jain Stupa and other antiquities of Mathura' (Allahabad, 1901), pl. 2, where Smith comments that the photograph, 'in the absence of explanatory notes recorded at the time, ...
View of the Jain stupa as excavated, Kankali Tila, Mathura. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
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Genre: Architectural Photography Reproduced in photogravure in Vincent A. Smith, 'The Jain Stupa and other antiquities of Mathura' (Allahabad, 1901), pl. 4.
Ruins of the great Jain temple, Bhand Dewal, at Arang. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the sanctuary tower. Described in J. D. Beglar, 'Report of a tour...in the Central Provinces, 1873-74' (A.S.I. vol. VII, Calcutta, 1878), pp. 160-162: 'The next temple is known as Bhand dewal, from the naked and indecent figures adorning it outsi...
