Carved figure of a Nagaraja in the Buddhist chaitya hall, Cave XIX, Ajanta. Photographer: Burgess, James
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculpture of seated Nagaraja figure. Photograph credited to Henry Cousens, but probably more likely to have been taken by James Burgess, to whom it is credited in the lithographed version reproduced in James Fergusson and James Burgesss, 'The Cave ...
'Chapel' in right end of verandah of Buddhist vihara, Cave XXI, Ajanta. Photographer: Gill, Robert
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Genre: Architectural Photography Note Gill's stereoscopic camera and basket of chemicals on the porch. See Madras Government Proceedings, Public Department, 18 April 1868, letter of 18 March 1868 from James Burgess, which supplies a list of the 61 stereoscopic views of the caves sent in by Gil...