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1. Photo 11(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(1)
Title:
Street view in Tanjore showing three small pagodas [gopuras]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Photograph of a street in Tanjore with three gopurams, taken by Samuel Bourne in the 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 11(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(2)
Title:
Street view in Tanjore with carved wooden car. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
View in Tanjore, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1869. View looking along the street towards a temple gopura flanked by painted walls, with a large temple car in the roadway beside an open-sided pavilion.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 11(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(5)
Title:
View showing the old moat and ramparts of Tanjore. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
View of the old moat with ramparts on the right, towards the outer gopura of the Brihadishvara Temple on the skyline, Tanjore, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1869.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 11(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(6)
Title:
The ramparts of Tanjore with outer gopuram of the Pagoda. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
View of the old moat and ramparts, Tanjore, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1869. The outer gopura of the Brihadishvara temple can be seen to the right of the moat.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 11(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(9)
Title:
The great Pagoda, Tanjore, from the ramparts. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Photograph of the Great Pagoda of the Brihadishvara Temple at Tanjore, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1869. View looking towards the sanctuary tower of the Brihadishvara Temple at Tanjore (Thanjavur).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 11(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(10)
Title:
The great Pagoda at Tanjore with corridor on the northern side. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Photograph of the Great Pagoda of the Brihadishvara Temple at Tanjore, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1869. The Brihadishvara Temple built by the Chola king Rajaraja around 1010, is a monumental temple standing in the middle of a large courtyard surrounded by smaller shrines.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 11(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(12)
Title:
The inner gopuram, Tanjore, from the interior of the quadrangle. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Photograph of the inner gopuram in the Brihadishvara Temple at Tanjore, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1869. The Brihadishvara Temple built by the Chola king Rajaraja around 1010, is a monumental temple standing in the middle of a large courtyard surrounded by smaller shrines. To the east of the temp...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 11(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(15)
Title:
River view near Tanjore. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Photograph taken by Samuel Bourne in 1869.View looking across a river, towards a riverside ghat and mansion among the palms on the far bank; with an Indian figure posed on the riverbank in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 11(33)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(33)
Title:
General view of the Seringham Pagodas from the top of gateway. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
View taken from the top of the (at this time) unfinished southern gopura of the Ranganatha Temple at Srirangam, looking northwards along the main axis of the temple complex, towards the gopuras leading to the central Ranganatha Shrine. For another view, taken by E. D. Lyon a year or so earlier f...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 11(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 11(34)
Title:
Two pagodas from top of the thousand pillared hall, Trichinopoly [Srirangam]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
View looking across the rooftops of foreground houses towards two of the massive gopura of the Ranganatha Temple at Srirangam, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1869.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item