Subject: Islamic Architecture / Level: [41] Item - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/31(3232)
Title:: Façade of Muhafiz Khan's Mosque, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Head-on view of the east façade, showing the triple-arched screen with flanking minarets. India Museum no. 1475. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 1001 (3232). Lyon supplies the following description in his 'Notes to accompany...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/32(3233)
Title:: Close view of base of north minaret of Muhafiz Khan's Mosque, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Showing detail of carved work at base. India Museum no. 1476. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 1001 (3233). 585. - Is a detailed view of the base of one of the minarets of this mosque. It differs in no essential particulars f...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/32(3234)
Title:: Side view of minbar or pulpit in Muhafiz Khan's Mosque, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography 586. - Shows a side view of the pulpit of this mosque; it is entirely of stone much more handsomely carved than any other to be found in the city.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
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Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/32(3246)
Title:: General view of Shaikh Hasan Muhammad Chishti's Mosque, Shahpur, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view from the south-east looking towards the two-storied façade, flanked by truncated minarets. Reproduced in collotype in James Burgess, 'The Muhammadan architecture of Ahmadabad' (Archaeological Survey of Western India, vol. 8, London, 1905), pl. 45. I...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/32(3247)
Title:: Close view of Shaikh Hasan Muhammad Chishti's Mosque, Shahpur, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close view from the south-east looking along the screen on arches of the east elevation, with the base of the south minaret in the foreground. The photograph is evidently composed to highlight the rich carved work on the minaret. India Museum no. 1490. Received ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/32(3248)
Title:: General view from the north-west of Sayyid Muhammad Maqbul Alam's Tomb at Shah Alam, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography This tomb, almost identical in design to Shah Alam's Tomb on the same site, is situated to the south of the mosque (see plan in James Burgess, 'The Muhammadan architecture of Ahmadabad' (Archaeological Survey of Western India, viol. 8, London, 1905), pl. 24). In...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/32(3249)
Title:: General view of east façade of Shah Alam's Mosque, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the court from the north-east, showing the screen of arches and flanking minarets. With part of Sayyid Muhammad Muqbul Alam's Tomb at extreme left. India Museum no. 1492. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 10...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/32(3250)
Title:: Close view of inner doorway of Shah Alam's Tomb, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View from the right looking towards the double brass doorway, and showing the surrounding pierced marble walls of the tomb. India Museum no. 1493. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 1001 (3250). 602. - Shows the entrance to the...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/32(3251)
Title:: Close view of façade of pierced stone screens on the north wall of Shah Alam's Tomb, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography 603. - Gives a view of the outer wall on the North side of the tomb, it is built as may be seen of stone, pierced and carved into all sorts of different devices, each slab of stone containing four squares. One block had been damaged and taken out, and has no dou...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/32(3252)
Title:: View of buildings from the top of Shah Alam's Mosque, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography The view looks north-east across the court of the mosque towards the buildings lining the north perimeter. The building at the right is the Diwan Khana or hall of audience, while the range of smaller buildings to left are for the use of visitors to religious fes...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

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