Search

032-003041903 Level [40] File

11. Photo 32(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 32(14)
Title:
No. 20. [Bibighar] Well at Cawnpore. The enclosure in the background is where the bodies are buried, the one in front erected to their memory. The tree to the right furnished the wood to make miniature crosses, sold for the benefit of the fugitives. Photographer: Tytler, Robert and Harriet
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography General view of the site of what was to become the Memorial Garden and over which Marochetti's angel and Yule's memorial screen were later erected. The well and grave are surrounded by a low wooden fence. A somewhat washed-out print. Duplicate of Photo 193 (21). S...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

12. Photo 32(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 32(5)
Title:
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
Scope & Content:
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
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

13. Photo 32(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 32(11)
Title:
No. 15. Right mosque, in the garden of the Cha[page torn] showing the Jumma Musjid (or ch[urch in the] religion of the place) at Lucknow. [Taj replica in the courtyard of the Husainabad Imambara, with the Jami Masjid in the background, Lucknow]. Photographer: Tytler, Robert and Harriet
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography The first word missing in the original caption ('Cha...') probably indicates an incorrect identification of the building as the Chattar Manzil. Size: 482 (w) x 367 (h) mm. Subjects = Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Islamic); tombs
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

14. Photo 32(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 32(10)
Title:
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
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

15. Photo 32(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 32(8)
Title:
No. 11. Taj of Agra from the land side. Photographer: Tytler, Robert and Harriet
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Islamic); tombs
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

16. Photo 32(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 32(6)
Title:
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
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item