Group of viragals (memorial stones), Betgeri. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography Henry Cousens, 'Revised list of antiquarian remains in the Bombay Presidency ... originally compiled by J. Burgess' (Bombay, 1897), p. 128: '...several memorial stones which with others are clustered together in a walled enclosure in the village. These are elabo...
Close view of a group of viragals (memorial stones), showing sculptural details, Betgeri. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography Reproduced in Henry Cousens, 'The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts' (Archaeological Survey of India, vol. XLII, New Imperial Series, Calcutta, 1926), plate 154a and described, p. 143: 'One of the largest and most interesting groups of these stone...
Close view of a viragal (memorial stone) with inscription in Kanarese, showing sculptural details, Betgeri. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of a massive viragal (standing some 12 or 13 feet high), with an Indian figure posed beside it as an indication of scale. Reproduced in Henry Cousens, 'The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts' (Archaeological Survey of India, vol. XLII, N...
View from the south-east of the Mukteshvara Temple, Chaudanpur. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography Henry Cousens, 'Revised list of antiquarian remains in the Bombay Presidency ... originally compiled by J. Burgess' (Bombay, 1897), pp. 141-142. With a row of inscription slabs in the left foreground. Subjects = Indian architecture
Close view of base of façade of Mukteshvara Temple, Chaudanpur, showing mouldings and sculptural details. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography The view gives a good illustration of the intricate mouldings along the base of the temple shikara (the area seen in this view can also be seen in the more general view at print 1905). This view also includes a window, whose lintel is surmounted by a relief scul...
General view of the Dodda Basappa (Great Nandi) Temple, Dambal. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography Side view, with the temple shikara at the left, with mandapa and south entrance porch at right. Subjects = Indian architecture