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Subject Temples Name Lyon, Edmund David, Captain, British Army officer and photographer in India, 1825-1891

1. Photo 2/3(96)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 2/3(96)
Title:
Jain temple of Hathi Singh. Entrance. Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Duplicate at ASIO 3235. Listed in Bloch's List of photographic negatives of ancient buildings, statues and inscriptions belonging to the India Office, London (Calcutta, 1900), Serial No.323. Also described in E. D.Lyon's 'Notes to accompany a series of photograp...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 2/3(97)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 2/3(97)
Title:
Ahmedabad, Huthi Singh's Temple. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Duplicate at ASIO 3237. Listed in Bloch's List of photographic negatives of ancient buildings, statues and inscriptions belonging to the India Office, London (Calcutta, 1900), Serial No.326. Also described in E. D.Lyon's 'Notes to accompany a series of photograp...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 2/3(98)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 2/3(98)
Title:
[Entrance to the] Swami Narayan Temple [Ahmadabad]. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Duplicate at ASIO 3243. Listed in Bloch's List of photographic negatives of ancient buildings, statues and inscriptions belonging to the India Office, London (Calcutta, 1900), Serial No.331. Also described in E. D.Lyon's 'Notes to accompany a series of photograp...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 2/3(99)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 2/3(99)
Title:
[General view of Swami Narayan's temple, Ahmadabad.] Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Duplicate at ASIO 3244. Listed in Bloch's List of photographic negatives of ancient buildings, statues and inscriptions belonging to the India Office, London (Calcutta, 1900), Serial No.332. Also described in E. D. Lyon's 'Notes to accompany a series of photogra...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 54(66)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 54(66)
Title:
Ruins of Vijianuggur [Vijayanagar] near Calamapoor [Kamalapuram]. A small ruined temple called the Volkonda [Ramachandra Temple]. The entrance porch. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Duplicate of Photo 212/6 (40). Subjects = Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Hindu); temples Location = Hampi; India; Karnataka; Vijayanagara
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1868
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 54(67)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 54(67)
Title:
Ruins of Vijianuggur [Vijayanagar] near Calamapoor [Kamalapuram]. A small ruined temple called the Volkonda. The Northern Face. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Duplicate of Photo 212/7 (1). Subjects = Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Hindu); temples Location = Hampi; India; Karnataka; Vijayanagara
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1868
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 122(41)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 122(41)
Title:
[Unfinished base of gateway at east side of Trimul Naik's Portico, Madurai.] Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Unfinished gopura at the eastern entrance to the Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple. Print surface slightly crazed from shrinkage of collodion on negative. Other copies of this print at Photo 212/1 (16) and Photo 1000 (2915). Subjects = Archaeological Survey of Ind...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1868
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 212

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 212
Title:
Photographs to Illustrate the Ancient Architecture of Southern India (in 7 volumes). Photographer(s): Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Collection of architectural photographs of Southern India in seven volumes, commissioned by the Government of Madras in 1867. The photographs are also included in the India Office Series (Photo 1000), and the original negatives for most are also held in the British Library Collections.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1867-1868
Extent:
Unspecified

9. Photo 212/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 212/1
Title:
Lyon Collection: Photographs to Illustrate the Ancient Architecture of Southern India, by Captain Lyon. [Vol 1 of 7]. Photographer(s): Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Modern buckram-bound album measuring 520 x 455 mm, containing 41 albumen print views of architecture at Trichinopoly, Shrirangam and Madurai. The prints are mounted on card, within a tinted border with the printed legend, 'India by Captain Lyon.' A letterpress caption label, with Lyon's assigned...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1867-1868
Extent:
41 items

10. Photo 212/1(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 212/1(1)
Title:
The Rock of Trichinopoly. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the temples on the rock at Trichinopoly. Lyon's 'Notes to accompany a series of photographs prepared to illustrate the ancient architecture of southern India' (Marion and Co., London, 1870), edited by James Fergusson, gives the following des...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1867-1868
Extent:
1 item