General view of the Jami Masjid, Siddhapur. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the court towards the trabeate façade of the mosque, which uses pillars taken from older Hindu shrines. With the ablution tank in the foreground.
Carved wooden balcony window, Siddhapur. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography With richly carved corbelling and details. Architectural drawings of the front and side elevations are reproduced in Burgess, 'Archaeological Survey of Western India', IX, plate 46. 'Gujarat, as already remarked, is full of examples of artistic wood-carving appl...
Ceiling slab carved with scrollwork from Siddhapur (surely from one of the buildings at Shaikh Farid's Tomb at Patan?). Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography View from above looking down onto the deeply-carved slab, composed of three sections, placed on the ground, with a man posed beside it as an indication of scale. The location is given as Siddhapur in T. Bloch, 'A list of the photographic negatives of Indian anti...
General view of the Nilakantha Mahadeva Temple, Sunak. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography Described in Burgess, 'Archaeological Survey of Western India', IX, pp. 103-105. See Photo 1002 (1744) for an almost identical view. Cousens describes his visit to Sunak in his progress report of the Archaeological Survey of Western India for December 1889 to F...
Close view of sculpture on the north wall of the Nilakantha Mahadeva Temple, Sunak. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography Reproduced in collotype in Burgess, 'Archaeological Survey of Western India', IX, plate 81 and described, pp. 103-05. Cousens describes his visit to Sunak in his progress report of the Archaeological Survey of Western India for December 1889 to February 1890: '...
Close view of sculpture on the north wall of the mandapa of the Nilakantha Mahadeva Temple, Sunak. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography Cousens describes his visit to Sunak in his progress report of the Archaeological Survey of Western India for December 1889 to February 1890: 'From Patan we proceeded to Sunak, a village about four or five miles west of the Unjha railway station. Here we found t...
(?)General view of old Trinetra Temple, Than. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of temple remains. This is probably an incorrect identification. Cousens' negative number, given in T. Bloch, 'A list of the photographic negatives of Indian antiquities in the collection of the Indian Museum: with which is incorporated the list of similar ...
The Great Arch or Kirttistambha, Vadnagar. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography Reproduced in collotype in Burgess, 'Archaeological Survey of Western India', IX, plate 57 and described, pp. 84-85. Massive decorated gateway connected with a temple no longer in existence.