The Taj Bowry or Crown Well, Beejapore. Cut stone tank 100 yards square, 50 feet deep & surrounded by a collonade [sic] and gallery. Entrance through an arch of 36 feet span. Photographer: Hinton, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography Showing entrance arch to the Taj Bauri, flanked by domed towers, with the tank beyond. Print 16 of Henry Hinton's The Ruins of Beejapoor, in a series of nineteen views from collodion negatives (Bombay, 1860). Subjects = gateways; Indian architecture; Indian ar...
Grand Tomb of Mahomed Shah, 6th King of Beejapore, called the Guli Goombaz or Rose Dome. Photographer: Hinton, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Gol Gumbaz, built 1659. Caption continues, '...built on a terrace 200 yards square. Height of tomb externally 198 ft, internally 175. Diameter of dome 124 feet, 4 minarets of 8 storeys, 12 ft broad entered by winding staircases terminating in...
Ibrahim Rozah Tomb, Tomb of Ibrahim Shah II, Mosque opposite 105ftx66ft, with a front of 5 arches. Built 1626 AD took 12 years building. Aurungzebe took up his quarters in it when besieging the place in 1686. [Bijapur.] Photographer: Unknown
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General view of the Ibrahim Rauza, the collection of buildings which includes the tombs of Ibrahim Adil Shah II and his queen, Taj Sultana and a mosque.
Asar-i-Sharaf. Fine verandah 33 ft x 120 ft, roof supported by four massive wooden pillars, fine reservoir in front 25 yds x 60 yds. [Bijapur]. Photographer: Unknown.
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View of the Asar Mahal, built as a hall of justice and later used to house two hairs from the Prophet's beard.
