General view of the entrance to the Varaha Cave Temple, Mamallapuram. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
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Genre: Architectural Photography The view shows the entrance façade, the opening supported by two columns with lion bases, with an Indian figure in the foreground. The empty shrine (centre background) is flanked by guardian figures. Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archa...
General view of the entrance to the Varaha Cave Temple, Mamallapuram. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
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Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Hindu); rock-cut temples; temples
Inscription of Firoz Shah, dated A.H. 753 (A.D. 1352), from a small mosque at Shahpur, Delhi. Photographer: [?] Henry Hardy Cole.
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Photograph taken from a paper impression of the inscription. See Alexander Cunningham, Report of a tour in Eastern Rajputana in 1882-83 (A.S.I. vol. XX, Calcutta, 1885), p. 153 and pl. xxxi. Photograph attributed to Cole in Theodor Bloch, A list of the photographic negatives ... in the collecti...
Close view of the lower portion of the south face of the Jaya Stambh or Tower of Victory, showing entrance, Chittaurgarh. Photographer: Baudesson, O.S.
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Genre: Architectural Photography Reproduced as a photogravure in H.H. Cole, Preservation of national monuments in India (vol II, 1884, part 8, Meywar), pl. 3. Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); Indian archi...
Close view of an arch of the Manak Mahal in the north range of Mor Chowk, City Palace, Udaipur. Photographer: Baudesson, O.S.
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Genre: Architectural Photography With glass and mirror-work mosaics surrounding the archway. Printed from a broken glass plate. Signed in the negative O.S. Baudesson 1882. Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series);...
Close view of sculptural detail on the lintel of a doorway of one of the shrines of the Navalinga Temple complex, Kukkunur. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); architectural elements; Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Hindu); Indian sculpture; Indian sculpture (Hindu); temples