Archive Reference (shelfmark): Photo 1000 / Subject: Architectural Elements - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/31(3207)
Title:: Close view of carved stone pillar inside the Ambaranatha Temple, Ambarnath. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography India Museum no. 1449. Received from Captain Lyon, 7 February 1871. '558. - Represents one of four pillars which support the roof of the building inside. Time and the weather even in the interior, seem to have been unusually destructive on this temple and more ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/31(3210)
Title:: Close view of carved work on Rani Sipri's Tomb, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of pierced stone windows and carved work on wall beneath. India Museum no. 1452. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. 561. - Shows in detail the outside of the tomb of the Ranee or Queen, who was the wife of the Sultan, the founder of the city...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/31(3211)
Title:: Close view of base of minaret at south end of Rani Sipri's Mosque, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Showing rich carved work at base of minaret, with balcony window on south elevation of the mosque in the background. India Museum no. 1454. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 1001 (3211). 563. - Gives more in detail the carving...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/31(3214)
Title:: Close view of carved stone door in the colonnade of the Rani Hajira or Tombs of the Queens, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography One of the four stone doors in the colonnade enclosing the Tombs of the Queens. India Museum no. 1457. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. 566 and 567. - At each of the corners of the colonnade which surrounds the Quadrangle of the Ranee Hazeera enclosu...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/31(3215)
Title:: Close view of carved stone door in the colonnade of the Rani Hajira or Tombs of the Queens, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Another of the stone doors in the colonnade of the Tombs of the Queens. India Museum no. 1458. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 212/7 (38). 566 and 567. - At each of the corners of the colonnade which surrounds the Quadrangle...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/31(3216)
Title:: Close view of pierced stone window in the colonnade of the Rani Hajira or Tombs of the Queens, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography 568 and 569. - Show two of the many windows, which grace the colonnade surrounding this mausoleum. Under No. 568 may be seen some of the broken slabs of white marble which have been allowed to fall from the tombs in the Quadrangle. The effect of these windows i...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/31(3217)
Title:: Close view of pierced stone window in the colonnade of the Rani Hajira or Tombs of the Queens, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View of another of the pierced stone windows in the colonnade. The slabs of marble resting against the wall beneath the window come from tombs in the quadrangle. India Museum no. 1460. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. 568 and 569. - Show two of the ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/31(3221)
Title:: View of a mihrab in Muhafiz Khan's Mosque, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View of mihrab, identified by Lyon as being in the Jami Masjid, but this identification is disputed by a pencilled note beside the caption. In the duplicate copy of this print, the mosque is identified as Muhafiz Khan's Mosque. This latter idenfication is confir...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/31(3222)
Title:: General view of the Tin Darwaza, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking along the street towards the triple-arched gateway. Reproduced in collotype in James Burgess, 'The Muhammadan architecture of Ahmadabad' (Archaeological Survey of Western India, vol. 7, London, 1900), plate 6. India Museum no. 1465. Received...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/31(3224)
Title:: Carved stone window in Sidi Sayyid's Mosque, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of one of the pierced stone windows in the rear elevation of the mosque, carved in elaborate vegetable forms. India Museum no. 1467. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 1001 (3224). Lyon supplies the following descrip...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

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