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2351. Photo 1003(482)

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Photo 1003(482)
Title:
General view of the uncompleted tomb of Islam Shah (commonly known as Salim Shah), Sasaram. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography 'List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal' (Calcutta, 1896), pp. 370-371, where, owing to the confusion of nomenclature, the same building is described separately under each name (items 138 and 139).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

2352. Photo 1003(488)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(488)
Title:
General view of Sher Shah Suri's Tomb under repair, with surroundings, Sasaram. Photographer: Garrick, Henry Baily Wade
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view from the west, looking along the north bank of the tank towards the tomb and the linking causeway. The view shows the tomb during the 1882-83 restoration undertaken by J.D. Beglar. The dome is still swathed in scaffolding, and the small pavilion or ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1883
Extent:
1 item

2353. Photo 1003(489)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(489)
Title:
View from the north of Sher Shah Suri's Tomb under repair, Sasaram. Photographer: Garrick, Henry Baily Wade
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View from the north bank of the tank looking towards the tomb, with part of the linking causeway visible at the right. Showing scaffolding in position on dome, and pavilion not yet removed (see note at print 488).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1883
Extent:
1 item

2354. Photo 1003(552)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(552)
Title:
Close view of the great wooden horse-shoe door of the Buland Darwaza, Fatehpur Sikri. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Head-on view of the massive doorway in the Buland Darwaza. It takes its name not from its shape but from the many horse-shoes nailed to it for luck. Reproduced in photogravure in E.W. Smith, 'The Moghul architecture of Fathpur-Sikri' (4 vols, Allahabad, 1894-98)...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1893
Extent:
1 item

2355. Photo 1003(557)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(557)
Title:
Interior of the Diwan-i-Khas, showing the top of the great central column, Fatehpur Sikri. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Showing the top of the column in the centre of the building, with the walkways leading to it from the four corners. Reproduced in photogravure in E.W. Smith, 'The Moghul architecture of Fathpur-Sikri' (4 vols, Allahabad, 1894-98), vol 1, pl. 78.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1893
Extent:
1 item

2356. Photo 1003(558)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(558)
Title:
Interior of the Diwan-i-Khas, showing the top of the great central column, Fatehpur Sikri. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Similar to print 557, but taken from a different angle.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1893
Extent:
1 item

2357. Photo 1003(613)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(613)
Title:
View looking north from the Khwabagh, showing the Panch Mahal and the Diwan-i-Khas, Fatehpur Sikri. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography The view looks due north from the Khwabagh, with the ornamental pool, the Anup Talao, in the immediate foreground. Beyond, on the extreme left, is the Panch Mahal, with the Diwan-i-Khas in the background right of centre. To the left of the Diwan-i-Khas is the An...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1893
Extent:
1 item

2358. Photo 1003(670)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(670)
Title:
Inscribed statue of the Buddha, A.D. 448-9, found at Mankuwar, Allahabad District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
The statue has been placed on a charpoy in order to be photographed. See A. Cunningham, 'Report of tours in Bundelkhand and Malwa in 1874-75 and 1876-77' (A.S.I. vol. X, Calcutta, 1880), pp.6-7'...Mankuar, where the Gosain of Deoriya has a garden. In this garden was found a very perfect figure o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

2359. Photo 1003(1073)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1073)
Title:
Statue of a Bodhisattva from the village of Mahomed Nari, Hashtnagar, Peshawar District. Photographer: [?] Henry Hardy Cole.
Scope & Content:
Full-length statue of a Bodhisattva, with label attached giving find-spot and noting that the sculpture was received from J. Dempster C.E. in Dec. 1883. Photograph attributed to Cole in Theodor Bloch, A list of the photographic negatives ... in the collection of The Indian Museum... (Calcutta: ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1883
Extent:
1 item

2360. Photo 1003(1100)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1100)
Title:
Buddhist sculpture slab from the lower monastery at Nuttu, Peshawar District: the Nirvana of Buddha. Photographer: Serrot, M.
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1883
Extent:
1 item

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