Photograph of a ghat at Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh, from the Murray Collection, taken by John Murray in the mid-1850s, from the Murray Collection: 'Photographic views in Agra and its vicinity'. Vrindavan is a pilgrimage town on the bank of the Yamuna river. This is a view of one of the bathing g...
Genre: Architectural Photography Landward view of the entrance to the ghat, a colonnade in the Greek doric order with central pedimented archway on the banks of the Hugli near the Town Hall. The letterpress caption label pasted to reverse records the inscription: 'The Right Hon'ble Lord William...
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography A photograph of the ghat from the Hugli riverside, with boats on the foreground. Masts of the larger ships can be seen behind the covered jetty. With descriptive letterpress caption label pasted to reverse.
Secundermalie [Sakkandurmali], near Madura. The Rock and Tank. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the tank towards the rock face beyond, with a ghat at the right. 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, ...