Inscribed elephant capital from Kankali Tila, at Mathura. Photographer: Caney, W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Photograph of the capital, excavated by Cunningham in 1871, showing the inscription from the reign of the Kushan King Huvishka on the base. The head of the elephant has been broken off. Described in A. Cunningham, 'Report for the year 1871-72' (A.S.I. vol. III, ...
Inscription of Firoz Shah, dated A.H. 753 (A.D. 1352), from a small mosque at Shahpur, Delhi. Photographer: [?] Henry Hardy Cole.
Scope & Content:
Photograph taken from a paper impression of the inscription. See Alexander Cunningham, Report of a tour in Eastern Rajputana in 1882-83 (A.S.I. vol. XX, Calcutta, 1885), p. 153 and pl. xxxi. Photograph attributed to Cole in Theodor Bloch, A list of the photographic negatives ... in the collecti...
Inscription of Sikander Lodi, Delhi. Photographer: [?] Henry Hardy Cole.
Scope & Content:
Photograph taken from a paper impression. Photograph attributed to Cole in Theodor Bloch, A list of the photographic negatives ... in the collection of The Indian Museum... (Calcutta: 1900), but probably commissioned rather than taken by him.
Islamic inscription from Kotila, Delhi. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Photograph taken from a paper impression of the inscription. See A. Cunningham, 'Report of a tour in Eastern Rajputana in 1882-83' (A.S.I. vol. XX, Calcutta, 1885), pl. xxxi, where the inscription is reproduced and dated A.H. 795-803.
Various inscriptions, from Gurgaon and other places. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Photograph taken from a paper impression of the inscriptions, four of which are included in the print. See A. Cunningham, 'Report of a tour in Eastern Rajputana in 1882-83' (A.S.I. vol. XX, Calcutta, 1885), pl. x, where some of this material is reproduced.