[The Husainabad Imambara, Lucknow.] Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking across the garden towards the Husainabad Imambara or Palace of Lights, erected by Muhammad Ali Shah in 1837.
No.3. Skinner's Church, Delhi. Photographer: Tytler, Robert and Harriet
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of St James's Church, known as Skinner's Church after Col James Skinner, who commissioned the building. Designed by Maj Robert Smith, it was built between 1826–36, with a cruciform plan, three porticoed porches and a central octagonal dome. Duplicat...
No. 6. Mosque on ridge of Delhi, held by the mutineers, our batteries were in the foreground appear now to be levelled. Photographer: Tytler, Robert and Harriet
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the mosque, showing evidence of bombardment. Part of the caption may be missing, and last section should perhaps give the sense of '...in the foreground where the ground appears now to be levelled'. Duplicate of Photo 193 (6). Subjects = Indian...
No. 7. Ruins near the Kootub. The pillar is supposed by the natives to go through the centre of the earth, there resting on the head of a tortoise round which the earth spins. Kootub a monument near Delhi. Photographer: Tytler, Robert and Harriet
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Qutb Minar and surrounding tombs, the area much overgrown. Duplicate of Photo 193 (16). Subjects = Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Islamic); towers of victory Location = Delhi; Delhi (Qutb); India
No. 10. Near view of the Taj [Mahal] from the river Jumna, Agra. Taj means sepulchre on an extensive scale: the Emperors of Delhi lie here. Photographer: Tytler, Robert and Harriet
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Taj Mahal from the riverbank just to the north-east. Both Dr John Murray (see Photo 35 (1)) and Felice Beato (see Photo 25 (21), who gave the Tytler's tuition in photography, took views of the Taj from an almost identical viewpoint. The infor...
No. 8. Ruins near Delhi. Photographer: Tytler, Robert and Harriet
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the Iron Pillar in the courtyard of the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque at the Qutb, framed by the arch of the Alai Darwaza. Subjects = architectural elements; gateways; Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Islamic); lats; mosques Location = Delhi; Delhi...
No. 12. Temple of Gaaraa Nanule [sic for Guru Ram Rai], Dhera [Dun]. Photographer: Tytler, Robert and Harriet
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Genre: Architectural Photography Caption note continues: 'Those who worship in this temple profess a religion between the Mohammedan and Hindoo and composed of Sikhs. Except one of their own sect no person ever had access within the temple until the mutiny. Gaaraa Nanule was the founder of the ...
No. 16. Top of the Palace of the King in the Kaiser Bagh [sic. for Kaiser Pasand], Lucknow. View taken from the top of a three storey house. Photographer: Tytler, Robert and Harriet
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Genre: Architectural Photography Caption note continues: ' The Palace, about six stories high, the dome on the left purposely cut in two, has the royal arms engraved in gold on it'. The view in fact shows a view of the top storey and domes surmounting the Kaiser Pasand, near the Kaiserbagh but ...