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

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/32(3240)
Title:: Close view of porch and entrance on north side of Hathi Singh's Temple, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography India Museum no. 1483. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 1001 (3240). 592. - This view shows the outer wall of the temple, and the double and single porches on the North side in the same manner as No. 591 does on the South, on...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/32(3243)
Title:: Entrance gate of the Swami Narayan Temple, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of triple-arched gateway (two side arches bricked up), with temple mandapa visible beyond. India Museum no. 1486. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 1001 (3243). 595. - Returning into the town the next visit should...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/32(3245)
Title:: Marble pavilion in the enclosure of the Swami Narayan Temple, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Chhatri or pavilion, with brackets in the form of carved figures. India Museum no. 1488. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 1001 (3245), where the structure is named as the 'Stone bird chattri'. 597. - This little shrine is bui...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/32(3247)
Title:: Close view of Shaikh Hasan Muhammad Chishti's Mosque, Shahpur, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close view from the south-east looking along the screen on arches of the east elevation, with the base of the south minaret in the foreground. The photograph is evidently composed to highlight the rich carved work on the minaret. India Museum no. 1490. Received ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/32(3250)
Title:: Close view of inner doorway of Shah Alam's Tomb, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View from the right looking towards the double brass doorway, and showing the surrounding pierced marble walls of the tomb. India Museum no. 1493. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 1001 (3250). 602. - Shows the entrance to the...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/32(3251)
Title:: Close view of façade of pierced stone screens on the north wall of Shah Alam's Tomb, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography 603. - Gives a view of the outer wall on the North side of the tomb, it is built as may be seen of stone, pierced and carved into all sorts of different devices, each slab of stone containing four squares. One block had been damaged and taken out, and has no dou...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/32(3252)
Title:: View of buildings from the top of Shah Alam's Mosque, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography The view looks north-east across the court of the mosque towards the buildings lining the north perimeter. The building at the right is the Diwan Khana or hall of audience, while the range of smaller buildings to left are for the use of visitors to religious fes...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/32(3254)
Title:: General view of gateway at north entrance to enclosure of Shah Alam's Tomb, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/32(3269)
Title:: Jain temple complex on Chandragiri Hill, Sravana Belgola. Photographer: Butcher, E.H.
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking down onto the temple and monastery complex (which can also be seen in the background of print 3268). In the foreground is the Parshvanatha Basti with its tall lamp-column, with the Chamundaraya Basti beyond. India Museum no. 1512.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/32(3277)
Title:: Close view of sculptural detail on the north-west façade of the mandapa of the Chennakeshava Temple, Belur. Photographer: Butcher, E.H.
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculptural and moulding details. The lower levels show banded friezes of elephants and other animal forms, with miniature shrines and figure sculptures in relief above. India Museum no. 1520.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

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