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Subject Museum Collections: Indian Museum, Kolkata

1. Photo 1002/13(669)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/13(669)
Title:
Inscribed statue of Shiva and Parvati, from Kosam, Allahabad District. Photographer: Joseph Daviditch Melik Beglar
Scope & Content:
Cunningham writes: 'I next [after Bhitargaon] visited Kosam on the Jumna, the ancient Kosambi, where I dug up several Jain sculptures, and obtained a curious brass seal inscribed with two lines of Gupta characters...' (Tours of Major-General A. Cunningham, Director General, Archaeological Survey...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1877-78
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1002/20(1036)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/20(1036)
Title:
Small stupa, Loriyan Tangai, Peshawar District. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of votive stupa, photographed in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. For description, see N. G. Majumdar, 'A Guide to the Sculptures in the Indian Museum. Part II. The Graeco-Buddhist School of Gandhara' (Delhi, 1937), pp. 116-117, illustrated plate 14. Gand...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1002/20(1045)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/20(1045)
Title:
Group of statues of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas excavated at Lorian Tangai, Peshawar District. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
Scope & Content:
Group of three pieces. Small format print. The central Bodhisattva (lacking head) is described in N. G. Majumdar, 'A Guide to the Sculptures in the Indian Museum. Part II. The Graeco-Buddhist School of Gandhara' (Delhi, 1937), p. 94, illustrated plate 5a. Indian Museum register number 4995. Ga...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1002/21(1053)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/21(1053)
Title:
Buddhist sculpture slab excavated at Lorian Tangai, Peshawar District: the birth of Buddha. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
Scope & Content:
Small format print. Briefly described (and illustrated at plate 7a) in N. G. Majumdar, 'A Guide to the Sculptures in the Indian Musem. Part II. The Graeco-Buddhist School of Gandhara' (Delhi, 1937), p. 38. Indian Museum register number 5034. Gandharan art.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1003(1045)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1045)
Title:
Group of statues of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas excavated at Lorian Tangai, Peshawar District. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
Scope & Content:
Group of three pieces. Small format print. The central Bodhisattva (lacking head) is described in N. G. Majumdar, 'A Guide to the Sculptures in the Indian Museum. Part II. The Graeco-Buddhist School of Gandhara' (Delhi, 1937), p. 94, illustrated plate 5a. Indian Museum register number 4995. Gand...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1003(1053)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1053)
Title:
Buddhist sculpture slab excavated at Lorian Tangai, Peshawar District: the birth of Buddha. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
Scope & Content:
Small format print. Briefly described (and illustrated at plate 7a) in N. G. Majumdar, 'A Guide to the Sculptures in the Indian Musem. Part II. The Graeco-Buddhist School of Gandhara' (Delhi, 1937), p. 38. Indian Museum register number 5034. Gandharan art.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1003(1171)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1171)
Title:
Buddhist sculptures from the Swat Valley. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1003(1172)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1172)
Title:
Reconstructed small stupa, Swat Valley. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography 'A fanciful restauration 'from portions found near Gandheri'' (Bloch). Now in the Indian Museum, where this photograph may have been taken. '...The present village of Gandheri, which may be connected with the old name Gandhara...A little north of Gandheri, and ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1003(1305)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1305)
Title:
Sculpture representing a tree (Kulpadrum or wishing-tree), from Beshnagar, Bhopal State. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Capital of a pillar in the form of at tree. A similar view by Beglar is reproduced as a lithograph in Alexander Cunningham, 'Report of tours in Bundelkhand and Malwa in 1874-75 and 1876-77' (A.S.I. Vol. X, Calcutta, 1880), pl. xv, and described pp. 43-44. The st...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1010/8(130)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1010/8(130)
Title:
[Calcutta] Indian Museum. Terracotta head from Kosam. cat. II, p. 112, Ki 1. Photographer: Archaeological Survey of India
Scope & Content:
Close view of terracotta head. Faded print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1909-1910
Extent:
1 item