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11. Photo 2/4(107)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 2/4(107)
Title:
The Great Gun at Bhilsa [Vidisha]. Photographer: Dayal, Deen
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Din Dyal 411' in the negative. Close view of the massive cannon, lying on a rough masonry platform in front of a house.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1882
Extent:
1 item

12. Photo 197(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 197(9)
Title:
Noonday Gun, [Kabul]. Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Close view of a field gun, presumably in the Sherpur Cantonment.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

13. Photo 197(42)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 197(42)
Title:
Captured Guns, Kabul. Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events View of captured Afghan field guns, ranged in lines in the Sherpur Cantonment. A light covering of snow lies on the ground. Other copies at Photo 98 (27) and Photo 449/1 (24).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

14. Photo 197(66)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 197(66)
Title:
[Three Afghan soldiers standing next to a cannon.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

15. Photo 247/2(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/2(11)
Title:
Enterior [sic] of Fort William, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the semaphore tower and a range of buildings inside Fort William, with a row of cannons in the foreground. With posed Indian figures and seated bullocks in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

16. Photo 1000/9(964)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/9(964)
Title:
The Great Gun, Bijapur. Photographer: Biggs, Thomas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Albumen print from a waxed calotype negative. The Great Gun or Malik-i-Maidan, with Indian figures grouped around it. This print is tightly cropped around the gun: the original negative shows more of the surrounding area.The gun was placed beside the Sherza Burj...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

17. Photo 1000/31(3181)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/31(3181)
Title:
The Great Gun Malik-i-Maidan, Bijapur. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view, with an Indian man standing beside the muzzle to indicate scale. India Museum no. 1423. Received from Captain Lyon, 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 1001 (3181). 532. - There were formerly six gates to the ancient city, the Makkah being o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

18. Photo 1000/34(3522)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3522)
Title:
No. 73. Amerapoora. Palace of the White Elephant. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography A square, open-sided wooden hall with tiered roof. A number of cannons lie in the courtyard in the foreground. Letterpress continues: 'The white elephant is the same Crawfurd saw in 1826; it is now fifty years old: it has its guards, four white and eight gold um...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

19. Photo 1002/34(1816)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/34(1816)
Title:
The Lamcharri Gun on the Landa Qasab Bastion, Bijapur. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:
General view of the gun from the side. Reproduced in Henry Cousens, 'Bijapur and its architectural remains' (A.S.I., Imperial series, vol. XXXVII, Bombay, 1916), pl. iv (c)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

20. Photo 1002/34(1817)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/34(1817)
Title:
The great gun known as Malik-i-Maidan or 'Monarch of the Field', Bijapur. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:
General view of the gun from the side. Reproduced in Henry Cousens, 'Bijapur and its architectural remains' (A.S.I., Imperial series, vol. XXXVII, Bombay, 1916), pl. iv (a)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

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