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1. Photo 212/3(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 212/3(3)
Title:
Streevelliputtur [Srivilliputtur]. The large Juggernaut car. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '333' in the negative. Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the massive, richly-carved wooden temple car of the Vatapatrashayi Temple. The European figure posed by one of the wheels may possibly be Lyon himself. Lyon's 'Notes to accompany a series of photograp...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1867-1868
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 212/7(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 212/7(7)
Title:
Ruins of Vijianuggur [Vijayanagara] near Calamapoor [Kamalapuram]. Large monolithic trough. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
View of the massive stone drinking trough for elephants, 41 feet long and hollowed out of a single block of rock. Another copy of this print at Photo 1000 (3145). Lyon's 'Notes to accompany a series of photographs prepared to illustrate the ancient architecture of Southern India' (Marion and Co....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1868-1869
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 212/3(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 212/3(4)
Title:
Streevelliputtur [Srivilliputtur]. Another view of the large Juggernaut car. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Direct, side-on view of the temple car also seen in print 3, showing the carving in more detail. 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...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1867-1868
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 212/3(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 212/3(22)
Title:
Tritchindoor [Tiruchendur] Pagoda. Section of old door under great tower. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close-up of a part of the pair of massive carved wooden doors at the base of the gopura of the Subrahmanya Temple at Tiruchendur. Lyon's 'Notes to accompany a series of photographs prepared to illustrate the ancient architecture of Southern India' (Marion and Co...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1867-1868
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 212/7(38)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 212/7(38)
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 Lyon describes the photograph as follows: 'At each of the corners of the colonnade which surrounds the Quadrangle of the Ranee Hazeera enclosure are 4 stone doors, two of which are shown in these two Photographs. The carving is good but the appearance is very he...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item