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681. Photo 1000/25(2521)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/25(2521)
Title:
Village of Mamallapuram, with sculpture of monkeys in left foreground. Photographer: Madras School of Industrial Arts
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View along road, with thatched houses on either side. For a close view of the monkey sculpture, see print 2531. India Museum no. 578/35, received 26 July 1872; with note referring to Public Department, India Office, no. 17d of 4 June 1872.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

682. Photo 1000/29(2975)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/29(2975)
Title:
Madura. The interior of the Tuncum. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography '...Represents the interior of the building called the Tuncum, situated outside the town on the opposite side of the river; it is called the 'Tuncum', and was built by Trimul Nayak in 1630 for witnessing cock-fights. It was in 1868 occupied by the Judge of Madur...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1868
Extent:
1 item

683. Photo 1000/34(3478)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3478)
Title:
No. 29. Tsagain Myo [Sagain]. A roadway. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Looking along a path, with small private houses with wooden tiled roofs on either side. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (29).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Aug 1855-Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

684. Photo 1000/34(3483)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3483)
Title:
No. 34. Tsagain Myo. View near the River. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View on the bank of the Irrawaddy, looking towards a building raised on piles over the water. Letterpress continues: 'The Irrawadi at the time of the freshes, inundates the country from some distance from its banks; the necessity therefore of building on piles, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Aug 1855-Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

685. Photo 1000/40(4236)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/40(4236)
Title:
Village scene, set among trees. Photographer: Biggs, Thomas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along road towards trees and the houses of a village. 'Recd. from Genl Biggs 22/3/71.' But possibly printed from a paper negative made in the mid-1850s in Karnataka.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1855
Extent:
1 item

686. Photo 1000/40(4238)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/40(4238)
Title:
Roadside village scene with coconut palms. Photographer: Biggs, Thomas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography A view probably taken in the same location as print 4236. 'Recd. from Genl Biggs 22/3/71.' But possibly printed from a paper negative made in the mid-1850s in Karnataka.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1855
Extent:
1 item

687. Photo 1000/42(4348)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4348)
Title:
Studio portrait of a Kathiawar Rajput, at Bombay. Photographer: Hurrichund Chintamon.
Scope & Content:
Print shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1867.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

688. Photo 1000/53(5021)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/53(5021)
Title:
Establishment of coffee planter, Ceylon. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography European family seated at tea or coffee round a table in front of house and factory buildings, with domestic staff grouped around them. Hand-coloured salt print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

689. Photo 1000/59(5436)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/59(5436)
Title:
Girl wearing jewellery, from the Bengal collection at the International Exhibition of 1872. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length studio portrait of a reclining woman, with hookah at the left. This woman is also seen in print 5447. Probably photographed at Lucknow.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1872
Extent:
1 item

690. Photo 1002/38(2097)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/38(2097)
Title:
Installation of image in new temple in south-west corner of the Vallabhai Tuk, Satrunjaya. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Showing scaffolding erected at entrance to temple, and with work in progress. Burgess and Cousens, 'Revised lists of antiquarian remains in the Bombay Presidency' (Bombay, 1897) states that the temple was set up seven years ago (i.e. 1890) and, assuming that pri...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Feb 1889-Mar 1889
Extent:
1 item

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