Subject: Hindu Images - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1006/1(436)
Title:: Takht-i-bahi. Garuda and Nagi. Photographer: Archaeological Survey of India
Scope & Content:: Figures carved in bas-relief.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1909-1910
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1008/7(1185)
Title:: Conjeeveram, Chingleput District. Figures of Bhuta and Nandis in the parapet wall around the Ekambaresvara tree. (Photograph taken for monograph on stone carving and inlaying.) Photographer: Archaeological Survey of India
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculptural detail.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1905-1906
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1009/1(1293)
Title:: Patna [Patan]. Mahesvara Temple, interior of hall. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Titled and numbered in the negative. Genre: Architectural Photography Showing interior of mandapa with sculptured columns and Nandi in foreground. The roof is open to the sky. Another copy of this print at Photo 1002 (2130).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jan 1892
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1009/2(1396)
Title:: Panthia. Large statue of Mahakali [Shiva as devourer of time and creation]. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Titled and numbered in the negative. General view of the statue, lying in pieces in a field, with an Indian figure posed beside it to indicate scale: 'A short distance from the temple, nearer the village, and lying full-length upon the ground in four separate pieces, is a colossal ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Nov 1893-Dec 1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1175(8)
Title:: Khajuraha — Colossal image of Varaha in Varaha Temple. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Postcard view, published by the Medici Society, London, of the large sculpture of Vishnu as Varaha, the body covered with miniature figures, in the Varaha Temple (western group).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1920s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1183(9)
Title:: Native Idol, Gaga. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Numbered '43' in pencil on mount. Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Close view of a sculpture of Ganesh in the ruins of the temple complex of Singasari. This piece was later presented to the King of Siam, when he visited the Dutch East Indies in 1896. Identification, dating and oth...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1860
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1258(16)
Title:: Indian gods in religious procession [Calcutta]. Photographer: Sperring, Stanley
Scope & Content:: Showing an image being processed through the streets.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1946-1953
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: S.W.275, 1(29)
Title:: Badâmi — Veranda of Cave III from the E. end. Photographer: Burgess, James
Scope & Content:: Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking along the porch of the cave temple, towards the sculptured figure of Vishnu as Narasimha at the western end. Another copy at APAC Photo 1000/3 (333). Original negative also held.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1874
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: S.W.275, 1(30)
Title:: Badâmi — Veranda of Cave III from the W. end. Photographer: Burgess, James
Scope & Content:: Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking along the verandah of the cave temple, towards the sculptured figure of Vishnu seated on the snake Ananta , at the east end. Another copy at APAC Photo 1000/3 (334).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1874
Extent:: 1 item

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