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921. Photo 1002/16(838)

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Photo 1002/16(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, Calcutt...
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Visual Arts
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Date Range:
c 1872
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1 item

922. Photo 1002/16(839)

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Photo 1002/16(839)
Title:
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.S...
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Visual Arts
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Date Range:
c 1872
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1 item

923. Photo 1002/16(840)

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Photo 1002/16(840)
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Sculpture fragments from Mathura. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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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,whic...
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Visual Arts
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Date Range:
c 1880
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1 item

924. Photo 1002/16(841)

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Photo 1002/16(841)
Title:
Sculpture fragments from Mathura. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography References to print 840 apply. Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); Indian sculpture; Indian sculpture (Buddhist) Location = India; Mathura; Muttra; Uttar Pradesh
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 item

925. Photo 1002/16(842)

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Photo 1002/16(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 piece...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
c 1880s
Extent:
1 item

926. Photo 1002/16(843)

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Photo 1002/16(843)
Title:
Miscellaneous sculptures from Mathura. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
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Group of Kushan period sculptures - statues, railing pillar fragments, etc. - from Mathura, now in the Lucknow Museum. Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); Indian sculpture; Indian sculpture (Buddhist) Locat...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1880s-1890s
Extent:
1 item

927. Photo 1002/16(844)

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Photo 1002/16(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
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Date Range:
1880s-1890s
Extent:
1 item

928. Photo 1002/16(845)

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Photo 1002/16(845)
Title:
Miscellaneous sculptures from Mathura. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous pieces, including the Naga queen of print 840, the standing Buddha of print 844, railing pillar, etc. Now in the Lucknow Museum. Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); Buddha images; Indian sculptu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1880s-1890s
Extent:
1 item

929. Photo 1002/16(846)

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Photo 1002/16(846)
Title:
Miscellaneous sculptures from Mathura: PRINT LACKING.
Scope & Content:
Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

930. Photo 1002/16(847)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/16(847)
Title:
Miscellaneous sculptures from Mathura. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
Scope & Content:
Railing pillars, Naga with cup, and other figures. Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); Indian sculpture; Indian sculpture (Buddhist) Location = India; Mathura; Muttra; Uttar Pradesh
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s-1890s
Extent:
1 item

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