Genre: Landscape Photography General view of a mango tree in fruit, presumably photographed in Mysore district. [Albumen print, probably from a paper negative, 292x230mm]. Subjects = Bowring Collection; mango trees; trees & plants Location = India; Karnataka; Mysore district
Charles Talbot Bowring, 1866. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing carte-de-visite (untrimmed) size portrait of Bowring's son Charles (b. 1862), by his first wife Mary Laura. [Albumen print, 59x85mm]. Subjects = Bowring Collection
Temple at Belgami in Mysore, with sasanas or carved stone grants. Photographer: Dixon, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards temple with pantiled roof. The copy of this print at Photo 1000 (2256a) is identified as the Tripurantaka Temple. With a group of stone shashanas in the foreground. The text areas of the stone have been whitewashed to make the inscriptions c...
The Sringiri Swami. Photographer: Henry Dixon (attrib.)
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Full-length seated portrait of the Jagad Guru (high priest of the Smart Brahmins at Sringeri), his chair placed in a doorway, with an attendant standing on either side. Bowring visited Sringeri during his tour of 1863-64: '...I proceeded to Sringiri, a famous matha or monastery, where resided th...
Ancient Jain temple at Halebid. Photographer: Dixon, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of Jain basti at Halebid. Apart from a series of pilasters, the walls are plain between the basement mouldings and decorated roofline. For another copy of this print, see Photo 1000 (2328). [Albumen print, 362x250mm]. Subjects = Bowring Collectio...
Ruined temple at Halebid [Kedaresvara Temple]. Photographer: Dixon, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of temple, with a banyan tree and other vegetation growing from the roof. The same temple, seen from a similar angle, can also be seen R.B. Oakeley's photograph at Photo 959 (49). A view of the same shrine is reproduced in James Fergusson, 'History ...