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571. Photo 1000/76(6190)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/76(6190)
Title:
Wall painting from Cave XXII at Ajanta, photograph of copy made by students from the Bombay School of Art. Photographer: Bombay School of Art
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Painted figures of the eight Buddhas. Reference 'A'. Griffiths I, plate 91.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 item

572. Photo 1002/1(38)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/1(38)
Title:
Varahi image at Jajpur, Cuttack District. Photographer: Cornish, William Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Sculpture of the wife of Vishnu in boar incarnation. Described (with prints 36-37) in 'List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal. Revised and corrected up to 31st August 1895' (Calcutta, 1896), pp. 472-473: 'Within the compound of the Subdivisional Officer's quarter...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

573. Photo 1002/1(40)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/1(40)
Title:
Close view of statue lying on the ground near the Mosque of Anu Nasir Khan, Jajpur, Cuttack District. Photographer: Cornish, William Henry
Scope & Content:
Close view of the statue also seen in Photo 1002/1 (39). According to Theodor Bloch, 'The statue looks like an image of Avalokiteçvara.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

574. Photo 1002/1(41)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/1(41)
Title:
Statue of Avalokiteshvara, Udayagiri Hills, Cuttack. Photographer: Cornish, William Henry
Scope & Content:
See R. L. Mitra, 'The Antiquities of Orissa' (2 vols, Calcutta, 1875-80), vol. II, p. 161 and pl. lix.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

575. Photo 1002/1(43)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/1(43)
Title:
Statue of Avalokiteshvara, Udayagiri Hills, Cuttack. Photographer: Cornish, William Henry
Scope & Content:
A different Bodhisattva sculpture from that seen in print 41.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

576. Photo 1002/2(71)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/2(71)
Title:
Group of terracotta figures from Bodh Gaya. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography A very dark print, showing a group of terracotta images of Hindu deities and Buddha images, packed for transportation on wooden shelves. The top right-hand piece is reproduced in Alexander Cunningham, 'Mahabodhi or the Great Buddhist Temple under the Bodhi Tree ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 1870s
Extent:
1 item

577. Photo 1002/2(73)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/2(73)
Title:
Sculpture of a Bodhisattva at Ghenjam (Ghenjan), Gaya District. Photographer: Garrick, Henry Baily Wade
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Described in 'List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal. Revised and corrected up to 31st August 1895' (Calcutta, 1896), pp. 326-327: 'About a mile-and-a-half from Kispa, to the north-east, there is a village called Ghenjan, on the top of a large mound. Here there is ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 item

578. Photo 1002/2(78)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/2(78)
Title:
Statue of Buddha at Kauwa Dol Hill. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography View of partially excavated seated Buddha image: '...The most prominent one is of Buddha, 7 feet in height, and 7½ feet broad, and which is now worshipped as Bhim Sen. The face is 16 inches broad...' (Cunningham and Garrick, op. cit., p.48). Photograph probably...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1872
Extent:
1 item

579. Photo 1002/2(78a)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/2(78a)
Title:
Statue of Buddha at Kauwa Dol Hill. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography A small, rather dark print, showing the seated Buddha image, also seen in print 78.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1895
Extent:
1 item

580. Photo 1002/2(88)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/2(88)
Title:
Statue of Vishnu inside ruined temple, Damdama, Hazaribagh District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View from doorway, looking towards the image.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

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