Carved pillar at the entrance to the Temple at [Patteshvara] Perur, near Coimbatore. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
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Genre: Architectural Photography Duplicate of Photo 212/5 (4). See Robert Sewell's 'Lists of the Antiquarian Remains in the Presidency of Madras' (vol I, Madras, 1882), p. 217: '3 miles south-west of Coimbatore...A richly carved temple about 200 years old, built round a small but far older shri...
Reverse side of the third carved pillar in the central aisle of the [Patteshvara] Temple at Perur, near Coimbatore. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
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Genre: Architectural Photography Duplicate of Photo 212/5 (8), which is in better condition. The negative had begun to degenerate by the time this later print was made, and the emulsion has lifted off the glass in places.
Close view of capital in the verandah of Buddhist vihara, Cave 24, Ajanta. Photographer: Gill, Robert
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of carved capital, with column broken away. The print has been mounted on the page upside down. Stereoscopic view. See Madras Government Proceedings, Public Department, 18 April 1868, letter of 18 March 1868 from James Burgess, which supplies a list ...
Lion capital of the right side pillar of the east gateway of the Stupa, Bharhut. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography Reproduced as an autotype print in Alexander Cunningham, 'The Stupa of Bharhut' (London, 1879), plate x. Duplicate (in faded condition) at Photo 1002 (1480). For another copy of this photograph (a later printing), see Photo 199 (41).
Lion capital from left pillar of gateway, and various other sculpture fragments from the Stupa at Bharhut. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography Collection of sculpture fragments photographed against a cloth backdrop. From the colonnade partially visible in the background, the photograph was probably taken in the central courtyard of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. The lion capital is illustrated (from a di...