Buddhist sculpture from Mian Khan, Peshawar District. Photographer: [?] Henry Hardy Cole.
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Panel fragments with ornamental carving and small relief scenes, boxed for transportation. Pieces 'said to be in Bombay' (Bloch). Photograph attributed to Cole in Theodor Bloch, A list of the photographic negatives ... in the collection of The Indian Museum... (Calcutta: 1900), but probably com...
Miscellaneous Buddhist sculptures from Rhode Tope, Sanghao, Peshawar District. Photographer: Serrot, M.
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This is one of a series of photographs taken for H. H. Cole at Mardan by Serrot, and not, as stated in 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 t...
Buddhist statue, so-called Athene figure, Peshawar District. Photographer: [?] Henry Hardy Cole.
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Precise find-spot not stated, probably now in the Lahore Museum. Bloch: 'Female figures of exactly the same type are very common as door-keepers in reliefs representing a scene located in a harem, e.g., birth scene of Buddha, or Buddha taking leave from his wife. They are the yavanis of Sanskr...
Group of ancient sculptures of Vishnu, etc., at Damoh. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography Captioned and numbered in the negative. Cousens, Central Provinces list, p. 31: 'Most of the Hindu temples here were destroyed by the Muhammadans, and their materials were used to construct a fort, which, in its turn, has been destroyed, so that practically no b...
Sculpture of a Jain tirthankara and other pieces, Jabalpur. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography Cousens, Central Provinces list, p. 27: 'The only remains at Jabalpur itself are some Jaina statues collected and built into a masonry block in the garden of Messrs. Cursetjee and Co. They are well carved images.' Location = Jubbulpore;
General view of tank and temples, Raipur. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography View across the dry tank towards shrines, presumably the group referred to in J. D. Beglar, 'Report of a tour...in the Central Provinces, 1873-74' (A.S.I. vol. VII, Calcutta, 1878), p. 168: 'About half-way between Rayapura and Drug [west of Raipur] are a few tem...
Rear view of the Gadarmal Temple, Pathari, Bhopal State. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography Captioned and numbered in the negative. Credited to Beglar in Bloch's list, but in fact part of the Cousens series of numbered views.
General view of the large Sasbahu Temple, Nagda. Photographer: Baudesson, O.S.
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Genre: Architectural Photography Showing the open-sided mandapa at the right. Printed from a brokewn glass plate. Signed in the negative O.S. Baudesson 1882. Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); Indian archit...