Subject: Sculpture / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: 1701.b.24(36)
Title:: Two projecting angles of buttresses elaborately carved, on the west side of the [Hoysaleshvara] Temple. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of the banded friezes of sculpture on the buttresses.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856-1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1701.b.24(38)
Title:: [Unidentified sculpture, Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid.] Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculpture on the facade of the temple. Oakeley's note confesses, 'I have very great difficulty in identifying this figure,' and speculates that 'it may represent the destruction of the demon Tarika by Kartikeya.'
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856-1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1701.b.24(41)
Title:: A series of projecting buttresses in a Court on the western side of the [Hoysaleshvara] Temple. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of banded friezes of sculpture on the facade of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856-1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1701.b.24(42)
Title:: Doorway on the east side of the [Hoysaleshvara] Temple. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of a doorway of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid, flanked by elaborately carved guardian figures. Oakeley's note points out the cobweb visible in the doorway, no doubt to emphasize the definition achieved in his photographs.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856-1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1701.b.24(43)
Title:: Another series of buttresses on the west north-west side of the builoding, showing the full height of the [Hoysaleshvara] Temple. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of a section of the sculptured facade of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856-1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1701.b.24(44)
Title:: The west side of the north entrance of the [Hoysaleshvara] Temple. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View of the projecting entrance, showing the sculptured exterior.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856-1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1701.b.24(47)
Title:: An Apsara dancing to the Tomtom, played by the two grotesque figures on each side. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of the dancing figure of an apsara, flanked by two small figures with drums, on the facade of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856-1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1701.b.24(50)
Title:: Parvati or Lakshmi. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculpture on the facade of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid: 'The figure is too much mutilated to enable me to decide which of the two Goddesses it is meant to represent.'
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856-1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1701.b.24(54)
Title:: This, I imagine, is meant to represent Siva; but whether in joy, grief, or anger, I leave my readers to decide. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculptured figure on the facade of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856-1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1701.b.24(56)
Title:: To the left are Siva and Parvati. On the right is a five-headed figure with apparently fifteen arms. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculptured figures on the facade of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid: 'On these five heads [of the central figure] rests a mass of trees, beasts, men, and above these, Gods. I am inclined to believe that the five-headed figure is intended to repre...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856-1857
Extent:: 1 item

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