Sculpture fragment, from Yusufzai, Peshawar District. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography India Museum no. 199, received 1869. Note in volume refers to an untraced private letter 'from Mr J.H. Thornton to Mr J. Thomas.'
Sculptured figure of Hariti, goddess of prosperity, from Yusufzai, Peshawar District. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Archaeological Photography India Museum no. 188, acquired 1869. Note in volume refers to an (untraced) private letter 'from Mr J.H. Thornton to Mr J. Thomas.'
Sculptured stone from Dodduru cromlech, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Photographed with measuring rule. Plate lxii of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).
Colossal Jain image at Paranagar, Alwar. Photographer: Impey, Eugene Clutterbuck
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Genre: Architectural Photography Showing top half of the massive figure, with a canopy supported by elephants above the head. For a better view of this piece of sculpture, see frontispiece to E.C. Impey's 'Delhi, Agra, and Rajpootana, illustrated by eighty photographs' (London, 1865). India Mu...
Sculptural fragments found near the Dharawat Temple. Photographer: Peppé, Thomas Fraser
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Genre: Archaeological Photography 'From the little hill to the south of the tank, which is covered with brick and stone rubbish, some curious sculptures were obtained by the villagers searching for bricks, representing various objects of Buddhist worship.' (descriptive notes by T.F. Peppé accom...