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Subject Nagaraja Images

1. Photo 1000/5(494a)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/5(494a)
Title:
Carved figure of a Nagaraja in the Buddhist chaitya hall, Cave XIX, Ajanta. Photographer: Burgess, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculpture of seated Nagaraja figure. Photograph credited to Henry Cousens, but probably more likely to have been taken by James Burgess, to whom it is credited in the lithographed version reproduced in James Fergusson and James Burgesss, 'The Cave ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1000/20(2092)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/20(2092)
Title:
Close view of Nagaraja sculpture on left side of court of Buddhist chaitya hall, Cave 19, Ajanta. Photographer: Robert Gill
Scope & Content:
Relief sculpture of seated Nagaraja couple in niche. Stereoscopic view. See Madras Government Proceedings, Public Department, 18 April 1868, letter of 18 March 1868 from James Burgess, which supplies a list of the 61 stereoscopic views of the caves sent in by Gill (IOR/P/439/6, pp. 551-555), of...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1867-68
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1000/20(2271)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/20(2271)
Title:
Left face of rail pillar, with relief sculpture of Chaka Vaka, King of the Nagas, from the Stupa, Bharhut. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Photographed on site, before removal to Calcutta. Reproduced as an autotype print in Alexander Cunningham, 'The Stupa of Bharhut' (London, 1879), plate xxi, 3.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mar 1874-Apr 1874
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1000/25(2503)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/25(2503)
Title:
Close view of elephant sculpture from Arjuna's Penance relief, Mamallapuram. Photographer: Madras School of Industrial Arts
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view taken from left of centre. Half-buried in front of the relief is the Nagaraja image from the cleft between the two main rocks. India Museum no. 560/17, received 26 July 1872; with note referring to Public Department, India Office, no. 17d of 4 June 18...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1000/25(2527)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/25(2527)
Title:
Close view of base of central portion of Arjuna's Penance relief, Mamallapuram, photographed 'since the excavations made by order of the Madras Govt'. Photographer: Madras School of Industrial Arts
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Showing the cleft between the two massive boulders on which the relief is carved, with part of the right-hand section. The base of the rock has been cleared to reveal the feet of the elephant, the cleft has been cleared of vegetation and the Nagaraja sculpture (...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1000/29(2895)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/29(2895)
Title:
Close view of elephant sculpture on right-hand section of Arjuna's Penance, with Nagaraja sculpture in foreground, Mamallapuram. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography A close view from the left of the large elephant, with the Nagaraja sculpture half-buried in the ground in front. Received 'From Mrs Breeks July 1873'. India Museum no. 1113.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1005/2(587)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1005/2(587)
Title:
Kanarak. Black Pagoda: image of Nagaraja, and of Surya, combined with Siva. Photographer: Archaeological Survey of India
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of two standing figures.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908-1909
Extent:
1 item