Colonnade and gopura of the Kumbheshvara Temple, Kumbakonam. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the façade of the colonnaded corridor which runs to the gopura of the temple, showing the rear elevation of the first entrance gopura. Duplicate at Photo 1008/1 (180). Subjects = Indian architecture
Gopura of the Ranganatha Temple, Srirangam. Photographer: Nicholas and Company
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the street towards the gopura, with an open-sided mandapa in the foreground. This gopura is also seen in Photo 212/1 (13). This gopura stands inside the main east entrance to the temple complex. Photograph attributed to H. H. Cole in T. Bloch,...
Gopura of the Ranganatha Temple, Srirangam. Photographer: Nicholas and Company
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking along a street of thatched houses towards the temple gopura. Photograph attributed to H. H. Cole in T. Bloch, 'A list of the photographic negatives of Indian antiquities in the collection of the Indian Museum: with which is incorporated the ...
Gopura in the Ranganatha Temple, Srirangam. Photographer: Nicholas and Company
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of a small gopura. The precise location within the temple is unspecified, but from its size it would appear to be at the entrance to one of the innermost enclosures of the complex. Photograph attributed to H. H. Cole in T. Bloch, 'A list of the phot...
Two-storied (?) Buddhist Cave Temple, Aihole. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the exterior. The structure is described in the caption as a Jain temple, but it seems more likely that this is the two-storey Buddhist temple, partly rock-cut, listed in George Michell, 'The Penguin guide to the monuments of India' (vol. I, London, 1989...
View looking along the Mutarli Mandapa, Madurai. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards a doorway, with the length of the mandapa beyond. Much of the print is in total darkness, apart from this central area. Subjects = Indian architecture