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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/18(1940)
Title:: Carved wooden balcony window, Siddhapur. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography With richly carved corbelling and details. Architectural drawings of the front and side elevations are reproduced in Burgess, 'Archaeological Survey of Western India', IX, plate 46. 'Gujarat, as already remarked, is full of examples of artistic wood-carving appl...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/18(1941)
Title:: Ceiling slab carved with scrollwork from Siddhapur (surely from one of the buildings at Shaikh Farid's Tomb at Patan?). Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View from above looking down onto the deeply-carved slab, composed of three sections, placed on the ground, with a man posed beside it as an indication of scale. The location is given as Siddhapur in T. Bloch, 'A list of the photographic negatives of Indian anti...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jan 1887
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/18(1942)
Title:: General view of the Nilakantha Mahadeva Temple, Sunak. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Described in Burgess, 'Archaeological Survey of Western India', IX, pp. 103-105. See Photo 1002 (1744) for an almost identical view. Cousens describes his visit to Sunak in his progress report of the Archaeological Survey of Western India for December 1889 to F...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Feb 1890
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/18(1943)
Title:: Close view of sculpture on the north wall of the Nilakantha Mahadeva Temple, Sunak. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Reproduced in collotype in Burgess, 'Archaeological Survey of Western India', IX, plate 81 and described, pp. 103-05. Cousens describes his visit to Sunak in his progress report of the Archaeological Survey of Western India for December 1889 to February 1890: '...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Feb 1890
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/18(1944)
Title:: Close view of sculpture on the north wall of the mandapa of the Nilakantha Mahadeva Temple, Sunak. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Cousens describes his visit to Sunak in his progress report of the Archaeological Survey of Western India for December 1889 to February 1890: 'From Patan we proceeded to Sunak, a village about four or five miles west of the Unjha railway station. Here we found t...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Feb 1890
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/18(1945)
Title:: (?)General view of old Trinetra Temple, Than. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View of temple remains. This is probably an incorrect identification. Cousens' negative number, given 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 ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/18(1946)
Title:: The Great Arch or Kirttistambha, Vadnagar. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Reproduced in collotype in Burgess, 'Archaeological Survey of Western India', IX, plate 57 and described, pp. 84-85. Massive decorated gateway connected with a temple no longer in existence.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/18(1948)
Title:: Ghat on the Mana Sarovar Tank, Viramgam. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Reproduced in collotype in Burgess, 'Archaeological Survey of Western India', IX, plate 34 and described, pp. 55-56. View looking towards the ghat, with numerous small shrines on the steps. With figures bathing at the water's edge. Cousens describes his visit t...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Mar 1890-Apr 1890
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/18(1949)
Title:: Ghat on the Mana Sarovar Tank, Viramgam. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Similar to print 1948. Cousens describes his visit to Viramgam in the report of his report for Mar-April 1890: 'Viramgam next claimed our attention; and the great multilateral tank called the Mana Sarovar, said to have been built by Sidh Raj, and covering about...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Mar 1890-Apr 1890
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/18(1950)
Title:: View along the south side the Mana Sarovar Tank, Viramgam, looking westwards, with temple and sluice in the background. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Reproduced in collotype in Burgess, 'Archaeological Survey of Western India', IX, plate 74 and described, pp. 91-92. Cousens describes his visit to Viramgam in the report of his report for Mar-April 1890: 'Viramgam next claimed our attention; and the great mult...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Mar 1890-Apr 1890
Extent:: 1 item

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