The Qutb Minar, Delhi. Inscribed: ‘Kutab Lat Dihly.’ Note: Major Robert Smith repaired the Qutb Minar and added a cupola to the top in 1826. Although this was removed in 1847, the artist, perhaps copying from earlier drawings, shows it as still present.
The Qutb Minar, Delhi. Inscribed on front in English ... ‘at Delhi’; in Persian characters: ‘Lath i Qutb Sahib dar shahr i Dihli ‘amal i Latif’ (Pillar of Qutb Sahib at the city of Delhi. The work of Latif).
The Qutb Minar, Delhi. Inscribed on front in Persian characters: ‘Naqshah i manarah i hadrat Khwajah Sahib’ (Picture of the tower of the sainted Khwajah Sahib); on back: ‘The Pillar of Khoijah Kootub, near Delhi.’
The Qutb Minar. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
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The Qutb Minar. Inscribed below: ‘Cutub Minar.’ 421 by 510 mm. Watercolour of Qutb Minar from 'Views by Seeta Ram from Delhi to Tughlikabad Vol. VII' produced for Lord Moira, afterwards the Marquess of Hastings, by Sita Ram between 1814-15. Marquess of Hastings, the Governor-General of Bengal...
The Qutb Minar surrounded by various buildings of the complex. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
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The Qutb Minar surrounded by various buildings of the complex. Inscribed below: ‘Another view of the same to the Surrounding Country.’ 351 by 503 mm. Watercolour of the Qutb Minar complex in Delhi from 'Views by Seeta Ram from Delhi to Tughlikabad Vol. VII' produced for Lord Moira, afterwards...
The five storeyed tower at Gaur known as the Pir Asa Minar or Firoz Shah Minar. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
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The five storeyed tower at Gaur known as the Pir Asa Minar or Firoz Shah Minar, with a Palas tree, ‘Butea frondosa,’ in brilliant salmon-pink flower in the foreground. Inscribed below: ‘Minar at Gour and the Pullass Tree or Butea frondosa.’ 362 by 450 mm. Watercolour of the Firuz Minar at Gau...
Street view in Tanjore with carved wooden car. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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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.
View showing the old moat and ramparts of Tanjore. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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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.