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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1003(1376)
Title:: Close view of entrance to Chandragupta Cave (Cave VI), 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(1377)
Title:: Close view of entrance to the Bina Cave (Cave IV), Udayagiri, Madhya Pradesh. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Showing foliate decoration on the architraves. Described in A. Cunningham, Report of tours in Bundelkhand and Malwa in 1874-75 and 1876-77 (A.S.I. vol. X, Calcutta, 1880), pp. 47-48, where the cave is named the 'Bina' of 'Vina' Cave and given the number 3. Georg...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1003(1704)
Title:: Interior of Dhokeshvara Cave, Dhoke. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:: A water-damaged print. View looking across the cave towards the sculptures on the far wall and the entrance to the linga shrine. Henry Cousens, Revised list of antiquarian remains in the Bombay Presidency ... originally compiled by J. Burgess (Bombay, 1897), p. 32; James Fergusson and James Bur...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1003(1765)
Title:: General view from the right of the entrance to Hindu rock-cut temple, Cave III, Badami. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Hindu); rock-cut temples; temples
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1003(2208)
Title:: Front view of the Dharmaraja Cave Temple, Mamallapuram. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Hindu); rock-cut temples; temples
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1003(2209)
Title:: Entrance, with rock-cut sculptures, to the Trimurti Cave Temple, Mamallapuram. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the three shrines (to Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva) arranged in a row on the rock-face, each niche flanked by pilasters with guardian figures. This temple is described in James Burgess, The cave temples of India (London, 1880), pp. 152-153, and ther...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1003(2212)
Title:: General view of the entrance to the Varaha Cave Temple, Mamallapuram. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography The view shows the entrance façade, the opening supported by two columns with lion bases, with an Indian figure in the foreground. The empty shrine (centre background) is flanked by guardian figures. Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archa...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1003(2213)
Title:: General view of the entrance to the Varaha Cave Temple, Mamallapuram. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Hindu); rock-cut temples; temples
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1003(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 = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of In...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1003(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 = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

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