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Subject Architecture Name Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik, photographer, 1845-1907 Digitised Content Platform BL legacy Universal Viewer (unavailable)

1. Photo 1000/20(2233)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/20(2233)
Title:
Fragments of the East Gateway of the Stupa, Bharhut. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Group of sculpture fragments, photographed on site, before removal to Calcutta. Various items from the group are reproduced in Alexander Cunningham, 'The Stupa of Bharhut' (London, 1879), plate vii, viii and ix. For another copy of this photograph in better cond...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mar 1874-Apr 1874
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1003(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1)
Title:
Brick temple of Siddheshvara, Bahulara, Bankura District. Photographer: Joseph Daviditch Melik Beglar
Scope & Content:
View of the temple shikara. List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal (Calcutta: 1896), pp. 16-17: 'The finest brick temple in the district od Bankura, and the finest, though not the largest, brick temple is the one at Bahulara, on the right bank of the Darikesvara river, 12 miles from Bankura; the ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1003(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(2)
Title:
Close view of mouldings at the base of the shikara of the Siddheshvara Temple, Bahulara, Bankura District. Photographer: Joseph Daviditch Melik Beglar.
Scope & Content:
Duplicate of Photo 1002 (2).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1003(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(3)
Title:
Temple at Chinpur, Bankura District. Photographer: Joseph Daviditch Melik Beglar.
Scope & Content:
View of shikara, in dilapidated state. See: List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal (Calcutta: 1896), pp. 16-17. J. D. Beglar, Report of a tour through the Bengal provinces... (A.S.I. Vol. VIII, Calcutta: 1878), pp. 203: 'a solitary laterite temple, but of no ancient date.' Duplicate of Photo 100...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1003(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(4)
Title:
Temple at Ekteswar, Bankura District. Photographer: Joseph Daviditch Melik Beglar.
Scope & Content:
See: List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal (Calcutta: 1896), pp. 20-21. J. D. Beglar, Report of a tour through the Bengal provinces... (A.S.I. Vol. VIII, Calcutta: 1878), pp. 200: 'Two miles south-east of Bankura, on the left bank of the Darikeswara River, is the small village and temple of Ektes...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1003(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(5)
Title:
Ruined large brick temple, known as Salivahana's Temple, Sonatapan, Bankura District. Photographer: Joseph Daviditch Melik Beglar.
Scope & Content:
View of the shikara, in a decayed and ruinous state. See: List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal (Calcutta: 1896), pp. 18-19. J. D. Beglar, Report of a tour through the Bengal provinces... (A.S.I. Vol. VIII, Calcutta: 1878), pp. 200-1. Duplicate of Photo 1002 (5).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1003(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(6)
Title:
Jor Bangla Temple (Keshta Raya Temple), Bishnupur, Bankura District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view. 'List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal' (Calcutta, 1896), pp. 16-17. J. D. Beglar, 'Report of a tour through the Bengal provinces...' (A.S.I. Vol. VIII, Calcutta, 1878), p. 205. Duplicate of Photo 1002 (6).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1003(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(7)
Title:
The pyramidal Ras Mancha Temple, Bishnupur, Bankura District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the temple, a stepped pyramid standing on an arcaded platform. 'List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal' (Calcutta, 1896), pp. 16-17: 'The temple is absolutely unique in style and architecture, not only in Bengal, but in India. Of minor brick buildi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1003(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(9)
Title:
Rock with temple in the Ganges at Jangira, Bhagalpur District [Jahnumuni Temple, Jahangira]. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Slightly distant view of the temple in mid-stream. 'List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal' (Calcutta, 1896), pp. 420-21. Alexander Cunningham, 'Report of a tour in Bihar and Bengal in 1879-80' (A.S.I. Vol. XV, Calcutta, 1882), pp. 20-31. Reproduced as a lithogra...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879-1880
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1003(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(10)
Title:
Closer view of rock with temple in the Ganges at Jangira, Bhagalpur District [Jahnumuni Temple, Jahangira]. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking up the rock face towards the temple. The face of the rock below the temple is covered with carved religious images. 'List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal' (Calcutta, 1896), pp. 420-21: 'The temple of Jahnumuni is on the highest point of a rocky isla...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879-1880
Extent:
1 item