Sculptured image of the seated Jain tirthankara Parsvanatha, Sironi Khurd. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
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Genre: Architectural Photography Photograph of the sculpture slab, with other images leaning against the wall in the background. Part of negative blocked out to separate background.
Front view of sculpture of female figures beneath a tree, Kota, Mathura District Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography Fragment of sculpture from a Buddhist railing pillar. Reproduced as a lithograph in A. Cunningham, 'Report of a tour in Eastern Rajputana in 1882-83' (A.S.I. vol. XX, Calcutta, 1885), pl. iii, and described p. 50.
Rear view of sculpture of female figures beneath a tree, Kota, Mathura District Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography Fragment of sculpture from a Buddhist railing pillar. Reproduced as a lithograph in A. Cunningham, 'Report of a tour in Eastern Rajputana in 1882-83' (A.S.I. vol. XX, Calcutta, 1885), pl. iii, and described p. 50.
Five railing pillars, with dancing girls standing on dwarves Mathura. Photographer: Caney, W.
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Genre: Architectural Photography Photograph of the five pillars, finely carved in deep relief, standing side by side in a garden. These were discovered in the neighbourhood, though not excavated, by Cunningham during his excavations of 1871-2. See A. Cunningham, 'Report for the year 1871-72' (A...
Sculpture fragments from Mathura. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography Group of sculpture of female figures at the museum at Mathura. Described in A. Cunningham, 'Report of a tour in Eastern Rajputana in 1882-83' (A.S.I. vol. XX, Calcutta, 1885), p. 34: 'The sculptures exhumed have been collected together in a small local museum, w...
Statue of a man and lion, Mathura. Photographer: Unknown
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Assumed by Cunningham to be Hercules strangling the Nemaean lion and described in A. Cunningham, 'Report of a tour in the Central Provinces and Lower Gangetic Doab in 1881-82' (A.S.I. vol. XVII, Calcutta, 1884), pp. 109-10. The left half of pl. xxx appears to be based on this photograph. The pie...