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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1003(830)
Title:: Torana in front of a modern Jain temple, Sironi Khurd, Jhansi District. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the torana or gateway. The negative has been blocked out along the edges of the structure in order to separate the gateway from the background of trees. A. Führer, 'The Monumental Antiquities and Inscriptions in the North-Western Provinces and Ou...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s-1890s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1003(837)
Title:: Inscribed elephant capital from Kankali Tila, at Mathura. Photographer: Caney, W.
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Photograph of the capital, excavated by Cunningham in 1871, showing the inscription from the reign of the Kushan King Huvishka on the base. The head of the elephant has been broken off. Described in A. Cunningham, 'Report for the year 1871-72' (A.S.I. vol. III, ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1003(838)
Title:: Close view of capital with four winged animals with human heads, from Cahubara mound, Mathura. Photographer: Caney, W.
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of the capital, laid on a pallet. Excavated by Cunningham and described in A. Cunningham, 'Report for the year 1871-72' (A.S.I. vol. III, Calcutta, 1873), p. 18. pl. iii is a lithograph clearly based on this photograph. Now in the Indian Museum, Calcu...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1003(839)
Title:: Five railing pillars, with dancing girls standing on dwarves Mathura. Photographer: Caney, W.
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Photograph of the five pillars, finely carved in deep relief, standing side by side in a garden. These were discovered in the neighbourhood, though not excavated, by Cunningham during his excavations of 1871-2. See A. Cunningham, 'Report for the year 1871-72' (A...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1003(853)
Title:: Fragment of the arch of a sculptured Jain torana (reverse side), from Mathura. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
Scope & Content:: Drawing of this piece reproduced in Vincent A. Smith, 'The Jain Stupa and other antiquities of Mathura' (Allahabad, 1901), pl. 19: 'There is nothing in the sculptures of this torana to indicate whether the ceremony depicted was Jain or Buddhist; but the fact that the slabs were found not far fro...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s-1890s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1003(855)
Title:: General view of excavations of the Jain stupa at Kankali Tila, Mathura. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along excavated trench. Reproduced in photogravure in Vincent A. Smith, 'The Jain Stupa and other antiquities of Mathura' (Allahabad, 1901), pl. 2, where Smith comments that the photograph, 'in the absence of explanatory notes recorded at the time, ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1889
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1003(856)
Title:: View of the Jain stupa as excavated, Kankali Tila, Mathura. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Reproduced in photogravure in Vincent A. Smith, 'The Jain Stupa and other antiquities of Mathura' (Allahabad, 1901), pl. 4.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1889
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1003(857)
Title:: General view of the Jami Masjid, Mathura. Photographer: Caney, W.
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking across the court towards the main façade of the mosque. The interiors of the three arches are decorated with encaustic tiling.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1003(863)
Title:: General view of the exterior of the Alai Darwaza, Delhi. Photographer: Caney, W.
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1003(864)
Title:: Arch on the north face of the Alai Darwaza, Delhi. Photographer: Caney, W.
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

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