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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 1003 Language Not applicable Subject Museum Collections: Indian Museum, Kolkata

1. Photo 1003(1045)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1045)
Title:
Group of statues of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas excavated at Lorian Tangai, Peshawar District. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
Scope & Content:
Group of three pieces. Small format print. The central Bodhisattva (lacking head) is described in N. G. Majumdar, 'A Guide to the Sculptures in the Indian Museum. Part II. The Graeco-Buddhist School of Gandhara' (Delhi, 1937), p. 94, illustrated plate 5a. Indian Museum register number 4995. Gand...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1003(1053)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1053)
Title:
Buddhist sculpture slab excavated at Lorian Tangai, Peshawar District: the birth of Buddha. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
Scope & Content:
Small format print. Briefly described (and illustrated at plate 7a) in N. G. Majumdar, 'A Guide to the Sculptures in the Indian Musem. Part II. The Graeco-Buddhist School of Gandhara' (Delhi, 1937), p. 38. Indian Museum register number 5034. Gandharan art.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1003(1171)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1171)
Title:
Buddhist sculptures from the Swat Valley. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1003(1172)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1172)
Title:
Reconstructed small stupa, Swat Valley. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography 'A fanciful restauration 'from portions found near Gandheri'' (Bloch). Now in the Indian Museum, where this photograph may have been taken. '...The present village of Gandheri, which may be connected with the old name Gandhara...A little north of Gandheri, and ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1003(1305)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1305)
Title:
Sculpture representing a tree (Kulpadrum or wishing-tree), from Beshnagar, Bhopal State. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Capital of a pillar in the form of at tree. A similar view by Beglar is reproduced as a lithograph in Alexander Cunningham, 'Report of tours in Bundelkhand and Malwa in 1874-75 and 1876-77' (A.S.I. Vol. X, Calcutta, 1880), pl. xv, and described pp. 43-44. The st...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item