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721. Photo 1003(1141)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1141)
Title:
View of rock with Asoka inscriptions, showing eastern face with edicts I-XI, Shahbazgarhi, Peshawar District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Similar viewpoint to print 1140, but a little more distant. Bloch describes this as a 'duplicate plate of smaller size,' but it is similar rather than a duplicate. It is unclear when Craddock (the photographer credited with prints 1140 and 1142) visited the site, but it was probably around the t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878-79
Extent:
1 item

722. Photo 1003(1142)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1142)
Title:
View of rock with Asoka inscriptions, showing western face with edicts XIII-XIV, Shahbazgarhi, Peshawar District. Photographer: James Craddock
Scope & Content:
See note at Photo 1003(1141).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

723. Photo 1003(1143)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1143)
Title:
Unidentified site, Swat Valley. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a rock face, with an Indian figure posed above. Bloch dismisses this as 'a mere landscape view', but there appear to be inscriptions on the rock, which would account for the photograph being taken. Small format print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 item

724. Photo 1003(1156)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1156)
Title:
Rock inscription in unknown characters, Swat Valley. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
Scope & Content:
Close view of inscription. Small format print, poor quality.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 item

725. Photo 1003(1159)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1159)
Title:
Statue of a Bodhitsattva and plaster-cast of Kharoshti inscription from Kaldarga near Dargai, Swat Valley. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
Scope & Content:
Print made from a broken glass plate. T. Bloch, 'A list of the photographic negatives of Indian antiquities in the collection of the Indian Museum: with which is incorporated the list of similar negatives in the possession of the India Office' (Calcutta, 1900): 'The statue is now in the Indian M...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 item

726. Photo 1003(1295)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1295)
Title:
Close view of the inscription on the Buddhagupta Pillar, Eran, Sagar District. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:
Captioned and numbered in the negative. For a translation of the inscription, dated 484-485 A.D., see Alexander Cunningham, 'Report of tours in Bundelkhand and Malwa in 1874-75 and 1876-77' (A.S.I. vol. X, Calcutta, 1880), p. 82.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1892-1894
Extent:
1 item

727. Photo 1003(1299)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1299)
Title:
Close view of the inscription on the breast of the Varaha sculpture, dated in the first year of Toramana's reign, Eran, Sagar District. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:
Captioned and numbered in the negative. See Alexander Cunningham, 'Report of tours in Bundelkhand and Malwa in 1874-75 and 1876-77' (A.S.I. vol. X, Calcutta, 1880), p. 84 for a translation.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1892-1894
Extent:
1 item

728. Photo 1003(1332)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1332)
Title:
Close view of inscription on monolithic pillar at Pathari, Bhopal State. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:
Captioned and numbered in the negative.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1892-1894
Extent:
1 item

729. Photo 1003(1417)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1417)
Title:
Photographic copy of a paper impression of an inscription on a pillar in the Jain temple at Dubkund. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
For a note on the inscription, see Alexander Cunningham, 'Report of a tour in Eastern Rajputana in 1882-83' (A.S.I. vol XX, Calcutta, 1885), p. 102, and for facsimile, see pl. xxi.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

730. Photo 1003(1521)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1521)
Title:
Inscription on upper face of argha, Jhirna Photographer: Garrick, Henry Baily Wade
Scope & Content:
View of the inscription carved in the rock slab, described in Alexander Cunningham, 'Reports of a tour in Bundelkhand and Rewa in 1883-84...' (A.S.I. vol XXI part I, Calcutta, 1885), pp. 112-113: 'Piawan...means simply the ''drinking place''. The spot is a small valley about 800 feet wide and ha...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1881-1882
Extent:
1 item

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