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Subject Islamic Architecture Material Type Photographs

1571. Photo 1000/32(3248)

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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
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Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

1572. Photo 1000/32(3249)

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...
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Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

1573. Photo 1000/32(3250)

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
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Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

1574. Photo 1000/32(3251)

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
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Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

1575. Photo 1000/32(3252)

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
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Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

1576. Photo 1000/32(3253)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/32(3253)
Title:
Shah Alam's Tomb from the top of Shah Alam's Mosque, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking south-east from the top of the mosque towards the main entrance (west façade) of the tomb. India Museum no. 1496. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 1001 (3253). This copy of the print is numbered 602 in the negati...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

1577. Photo 1000/32(3254)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/32(3254)
Title:
General view of gateway at north entrance to enclosure of Shah Alam's Tomb, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

1578. Photo 1000/32(3256)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/32(3256)
Title:
Façade of Dada Harir's Mosque, Asarwa, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View from the south-east corner of the court, looking towards the iwan and flanking minarets. The photographs shows the south minaret before it was condemned as unsafe and demolished by the Public Works Department, c. 1875. India Museum no. 1499. Received from C...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

1579. Photo 1000/32(3257)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/32(3257)
Title:
General view of Dada Harir's Tomb, Asarwa, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of south façade showing entrance, with bricked-in area in foreground apparently used as living quarters by the watchman. Reproduced in collotype in James Burgess, 'Muhammadan architecture of Ahmadabad' (Archaeological Survey of Western India, vol. 8...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
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Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

1580. Photo 1000/32(3258)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/32(3258)
Title:
General view of Shaikh Ahmad Ganj Baksh's Tomb, Sarkhej, near Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View from the south-east. India Museum no. 1501. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 1001 (3258). 610. - At a distance of about 5 miles from Ahmedabad are the ruins of what must once have been the magnificent cemetery of Sirkej....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
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Date Range:
1869
Extent:
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