Close view of entrance of Adinatha Temple, showing statue within the shrine, Saurai, Jhansi District. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography Poor quality photograph, showing doorway with sculptured architraves, with sculpture of tirthankara seated within the sanctum.
Miscellaneous sculptures from Mathura. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
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Including a bacchanalian scene (see 'Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal', vol. XLIV, part I, 1875), a large statue of a standing Buddha in a diaphanous tunic (see F.S. Growse, 'Mathura: a district memoir' (2nd edition, Allahabad, 1880), plate facing p. 160), and other pieces. Now in the Lu...
General view of the tomb of Mubarak Sayyid, Delhi. Photographer: [?] Henry Hardy Cole.
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Identified in Bloch's list as Buhlul Lodi's Tomb, but the photograph appears to match in every respect the description given of Mubarak Sayyid's Tomb in Carr Stephen, The archaeology and monumental remains of Delhi (Ludhiana and Calcutta: 1876), pp. 159-161. See also the illustration of this tom...
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...
Inscription of Sikander Lodi, Delhi. Photographer: [?] Henry Hardy Cole.
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Photograph taken from a paper impression. Photograph attributed to Cole in Theodor Bloch, A list of the photographic negatives ... in the collection of The Indian Museum... (Calcutta: 1900), but probably commissioned rather than taken by him.
Islamic inscription from Kotila, Delhi. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Photograph taken from a paper impression of the inscription. See A. Cunningham, 'Report of a tour in Eastern Rajputana in 1882-83' (A.S.I. vol. XX, Calcutta, 1885), pl. xxxi, where the inscription is reproduced and dated A.H. 795-803.