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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1002/40(2214)
Title:: General view of the façade of the Yamapuri or Mahishamardini Cave Temple, Mamallapuram Photographer: Rea, Alexander
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View from the right looking towards the columned façade of the temple, with the shrines partly visible behind. With four Indian men seated on the steps leading up to the temple. Subjects = Indian architecture
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1002/40(2216)
Title:: Unfinished Cave Temple, Mamallapuram. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the entrance of the temple, which consists of three openings between two rough arches. The surrounding rock-face has been crudely cross-hatched to form incised squares. Subjects = Indian architecture; unidentified
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1002/40(2217)
Title:: Unidentified Cave Temple, Mamallapuram. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = Indian architecture; unidentified
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1002/40(2218)
Title:: Unidentified Cave Temple, Mamallapuram. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Small cave with three openings supported on two large pillars, square at top and bottom, with an octagonal section in the middle. Two Indian men stand at the entrance, one posed in the act of measuring the pillar. Subjects = Indian architecture; unidentified
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1002/40(2219)
Title:: Unidentified Cave Temple, Mamallapuram [Koneri Mandapa]. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View of the entrance to the five-shrined cave temple from the right. Four square-and-octagonal sectioned pillars support the opening, with a hall beyond and a second row of fluted pillars. The rock-face above the entrance is carved into ornamental architectural ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1002/40(2221)
Title:: Rock-cut Temple known as the Tiger Cave at Saluvankuppam, north of Mamallapuram. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Massive boulder in which a portico has been excavated, with the surrounding rock-face carved into the form of a ring of yali ('tiger') heads. To the left are carved two elephants, with niches above. Printed from a broken glass plate. Subjects = Indian architec...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1002/40(2222)
Title:: Atiranachanda Mandapa at Saluvankuppam, north of Mamallapuram. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = Indian architecture;
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1003(1373)
Title:: Close view of pillars inside the 'Amrita' Cave (Cave XIX), Udayagiri, Madhya Pradesh. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1003(1374)
Title:: Close view of capital of a pillar inside the 'Amrita' Cave (Cave XIX), Udayagiri, Madhya Pradesh. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Described in Alexander Cunningham, 'Report of tours in Bundelkhand and Malwa in 1874-75 and 1876-77' (A.S.I. vol. X, Calcutta, 1880), pp. 52-53: 'The roof is supported by four massive pillars, 8 feet high and 1 foot 7 inches square, also hewn out of the rock. Th...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1003(1375)
Title:: General view of entrance to Chandragupta Cave (Cave VI), Udayagiri, Madhya Pradesh. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Showing the doorway, with sculpture panels of deities on either side. Reproduced as a lithograph in A. Cunningham, Report of tours in Bundelkhand and Malwa in 1874-75 and 1876-77 (A.S.I. vol. X, Calcutta, 1880), pl. xvii and described pp. 49-50. Subjects = Arc...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

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