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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 1000 Language Not applicable Name Biggs, Thomas, 1822-1905

1. Photo 1000/1(154)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/1(154)
Title:
Short Kanarese inscription on rock west of Cave III, Badami, Bijapur District. Photographer: Biggs, Thomas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Inscriptions on rock face, highlighted in white. The print is no more than a small detail from one section of the original paper negative, the whole of which (so far unprinted) shows the entrance to the cave beyond.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1000/1(174)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/1(174)
Title:
Kanarese inscription slab of Vikramaditya-Tribhuvanamalla, Shaka 1011 (c.1089 AD), Huli, Belgaum District. Photographer: Biggs, Thomas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Another copy of this print at Photo 102 (113).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1855
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1000/4

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/4
Title:
Archaeological Survey of India Collections: India Office Series (volume 4: Archaeological Survey of Western India). Photographers: Thomas Biggs, James Burgess, David Harold Day Sykes, Robert Gill.
Scope & Content:
Blue buckram album containing 137 albumen prints from the India Office series of archaeological photographs. The photographs show temples, caves and other archaeological sites in Western India. Locations include Pattadakal, Ahmadabad, Than, Junagadh, Girnar, Ghumli, Mukhana, Gop, Mundra, Bhadres...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855-1875
Extent:
137 items

4. Photo 1000/4(354)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/4(354)
Title:
Great Shiva Temple of Virupaksha at Pattadakal, Bijapur District Photographer: Biggs, Thomas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Reduced copy (measuring 185x252mm) of plate 55 of Taylor and Fergusson's 'Architecture in Dharwar and Mysore' (London, 1866). The original print by Biggs laid down in this volume measures 288x392mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1000/4(355)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/4(355)
Title:
Papanatha Temple, Pattadakal. Photographer: Biggs, Thomas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Reduced copy (measuring 179x253mm) of plate 61 of Taylor and Fergusson's 'Architecture in Dharwar and Mysore' (London, 1866). The original print by Biggs laid down in this volume measures 272x390mm, and is there entitled 'Ruined temple built into the village wal...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1000/7(825)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/7(825)
Title:
General view of the Rauza of Mubarak Sayyid at Sojali near Mehmdabad, Gujarat. Photographer: Thomas Biggs.
Scope & Content:
Listed in Henry Cousens, Revised list of antiquarian remains in the Bombay Presidency ... originally compiled by J. Burgess (Bombay, 1897), p. 93 and Archaeological Survey of Western India, VI, pp.45-6.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1000/9(964)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/9(964)
Title:
The Great Gun, Bijapur. Photographer: Biggs, Thomas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Albumen print from a waxed calotype negative. The Great Gun or Malik-i-Maidan, with Indian figures grouped around it. This print is tightly cropped around the gun: the original negative shows more of the surrounding area.The gun was placed beside the Sherza Burj...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1000/9(965)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/9(965)
Title:
The Lion Bastion, Bijapur. Photographer: Biggs, Thomas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1000/9(966)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/9(966)
Title:
General view with ruins in foreground, Bijapur. Photographer: Biggs, Thomas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Albumen print from a waxed calotype negative. Precise location unidentified. Incorrectly identified 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 ne...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1000/9(967)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/9(967)
Title:
Ruins of an unidentified palace, Bijapur. [The Cheeny Mahal.] Photographer: Biggs, Thomas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item