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1561. Photo 1000/32(3247)

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Photo 1000/32(3247)
Title:
Close view of Shaikh Hasan Muhammad Chishti's Mosque, Shahpur, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view from the south-east looking along the screen on arches of the east elevation, with the base of the south minaret in the foreground. The photograph is evidently composed to highlight the rich carved work on the minaret. India Museum no. 1490. Received ...
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Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1869
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1 item

1562. Photo 1000/32(3248)

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Photo 1000/32(3248)
Title:
General view from the north-west of Sayyid Muhammad Maqbul Alam's Tomb at Shah Alam, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography This tomb, almost identical in design to Shah Alam's Tomb on the same site, is situated to the south of the mosque (see plan in James Burgess, 'The Muhammadan architecture of Ahmadabad' (Archaeological Survey of Western India, viol. 8, London, 1905), pl. 24). In...
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Date Range:
1869
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1563. Photo 1000/32(3249)

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Photo 1000/32(3249)
Title:
General view of east façade of Shah Alam's Mosque, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the court from the north-east, showing the screen of arches and flanking minarets. With part of Sayyid Muhammad Muqbul Alam's Tomb at extreme left. India Museum no. 1492. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 10...
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Date Range:
1869
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1 item

1564. Photo 1000/32(3250)

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Photo 1000/32(3250)
Title:
Close view of inner doorway of Shah Alam's Tomb, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View from the right looking towards the double brass doorway, and showing the surrounding pierced marble walls of the tomb. India Museum no. 1493. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 1001 (3250). 602. - Shows the entrance to the...
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Date Range:
1869
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1565. Photo 1000/32(3251)

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Photo 1000/32(3251)
Title:
Close view of façade of pierced stone screens on the north wall of Shah Alam's Tomb, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography 603. - Gives a view of the outer wall on the North side of the tomb, it is built as may be seen of stone, pierced and carved into all sorts of different devices, each slab of stone containing four squares. One block had been damaged and taken out, and has no dou...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

1566. Photo 1000/32(3252)

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Photo 1000/32(3252)
Title:
View of buildings from the top of Shah Alam's Mosque, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography The view looks north-east across the court of the mosque towards the buildings lining the north perimeter. The building at the right is the Diwan Khana or hall of audience, while the range of smaller buildings to left are for the use of visitors to religious fes...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

1567. Photo 1000/32(3253)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/32(3253)
Title:
Shah Alam's Tomb from the top of Shah Alam's Mosque, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking south-east from the top of the mosque towards the main entrance (west façade) of the tomb. India Museum no. 1496. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 1001 (3253). This copy of the print is numbered 602 in the negati...
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Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

1568. Photo 1000/32(3254)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/32(3254)
Title:
General view of gateway at north entrance to enclosure of Shah Alam's Tomb, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

1569. Photo 1000/32(3256)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/32(3256)
Title:
Façade of Dada Harir's Mosque, Asarwa, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View from the south-east corner of the court, looking towards the iwan and flanking minarets. The photographs shows the south minaret before it was condemned as unsafe and demolished by the Public Works Department, c. 1875. India Museum no. 1499. Received from C...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

1570. Photo 1000/32(3257)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/32(3257)
Title:
General view of Dada Harir's Tomb, Asarwa, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of south façade showing entrance, with bricked-in area in foreground apparently used as living quarters by the watchman. Reproduced in collotype in James Burgess, 'Muhammadan architecture of Ahmadabad' (Archaeological Survey of Western India, vol. 8...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1869
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