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032-003136414 Subject Islamic Architecture

301. Photo 1003(480)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(480)
Title:
Close view showing details of arches on the ground floor of Hasa Khan Suri's Tomb, Sasaram. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Showing a row of three pointed arches which form one section of the octagonal arcade which runs around the lower storey of the tomb.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

302. Photo 1003(639)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(639)
Title:
Close view of carved dado panel in red sandstone in the Turkish Sultana's House, Fatehpur Sikri. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography See E.W. Smith, 'The Moghul architecture of Fathpur-Sikri' (4 vols, Allahabad, 1894-98), vol 1, pl. 39 for a drawing of this piece.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1893
Extent:
1 item

303. Photo 1003(1551)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1551)
Title:
General view of the tomb said to have been built by Ala-ud-Din Alam Shah, Tijara. Photographer: [?] Henry Hardy Cole.
Scope & Content:
Described in Alexander Cunningham, Report of a tour in Eastern Rajputana in 1882-83 (A.S.I. vol. XX, Calcutta, 1885), pp. 115-116: The tomb is 'now called Bhatari, because the land on which it stands formerly belonged to a Hindu of that name.' When seen by Cunningham it was being used as a barn....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

304. Photo 1003(548)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(548)
Title:
Side view from the west of the exterior of the Buland Darwaza, with the diving well in the foreground, Fatehpur Sikri. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Reproduced in photogravure in E.W. Smith, 'The Moghul architecture of Fathpur-Sikri' (4 vols, Allahabad, 1894-98), vol 4, pl. 80.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1893
Extent:
1 item

305. Photo 1003(579)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(579)
Title:
View looking south to north along the piazza in front of the aisles of the Jami Masjid, Fatehpur Sikri. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Interior view looking along the colonnade. Reproduced in photogravure in E.W. Smith, 'The Moghul architecture of Fathpur-Sikri' (4 vols, Allahabad, 1894-98), vol 4, pl. 17. See also pl. 13 for a plan of the building, which shows more clearly the location of this...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1893
Extent:
1 item

306. Photo 1003(941)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(941)
Title:
View looking across the court towards the iwan of Wazir Khan's Mosque, Lahore. Photographer: [?] Henry Hardy Cole.
Scope & Content:
Head-on view of iwan and entrance to prayer hall. Prints 939-41 form a panoramic view of the east façade of the mosque. Captioned and dated in the negative. Photograph attributed to Cole in Theodor Bloch, A list of the photographic negatives ... in the collection of The Indian Museum... (Calcut...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jan 1884
Extent:
1 item

307. Photo 1003(942)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(942)
Title:
View looking across the court towards the iwan of Wazir Khan's Mosque, Lahore. Photographer: [?] Henry Hardy Cole.
Scope & Content:
An oblique view from the south-east, slightly more distant than print 941. Slight damage along right-hand edge of negative. Photograph attributed to Cole in Theodor Bloch, A list of the photographic negatives ... in the collection of The Indian Museum... (Calcutta: 1900), but probably commissio...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jan 1884
Extent:
1 item

308. Photo 1003(626)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(626)
Title:
Close view of pierced marble screen in the south façade of Shaikh Salim Chishti's Tomb, Fatehpur Sikri. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1892
Extent:
1 item

309. Photo 1003(636)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(636)
Title:
Close view of ceiling and carved stone columns in the north verandah of the Turkish Sultana's House, Fatehpur Sikri. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Almost identical to print 635.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1893
Extent:
1 item

310. Photo 1003(875)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(875)
Title:
Close view of the left side of the main façade of the Qila-i-Kuhna Masjid, Delhi. Photographer: [?] Henry Hardy Cole.
Scope & Content:
Photograph attributed to Cole in Theodor Bloch, A list of the photographic negatives ... in the collection of The Indian Museum... (Calcutta: 1900), but probably commissioned rather than taken by him.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880s
Extent:
1 item