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032-003225929 Subject Sculpture

1. 1701.b.24(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
1701.b.24(3)
Title:
Lakshmi. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculptured image of Lakshmi, 'consort of Vishnu, and the Goddess of Plenty and Riches,' on the facade of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856-1857
Extent:
1 item

2. 1701.b.24(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
1701.b.24(4)
Title:
Kartikeya and Tripurasura. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculpture on the facade of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid: 'The picture represents the destruction, by Kartikeya, of the Daitya Tripurasura, a monster who usurped the dominions of the universe, and oppressed both the Gods and the human race...' ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856-1857
Extent:
1 item

3. 1701.b.24(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
1701.b.24(21)
Title:
Group of Apsaras. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculpture on the facade of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid: 'This group which beautifully carved, is almost inclosed by projecting buttresses, and is in deep shade during the greater part of the day. It represents a number of nude female figures....
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856-1857
Extent:
1 item

4. 1701.b.24(50)

Reference (shelfmark):
1701.b.24(50)
Title:
Parvati or Lakshmi. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculpture on the facade of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid: 'The figure is too much mutilated to enable me to decide which of the two Goddesses it is meant to represent.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856-1857
Extent:
1 item

5. 1701.b.24(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
1701.b.24(1)
Title:
Ganesa. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Head-on view of a free-standing statue of Ganesha at Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856-1857
Extent:
1 item

6. 1701.b.24(38)

Reference (shelfmark):
1701.b.24(38)
Title:
[Unidentified sculpture, Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid.] Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculpture on the facade of the temple. Oakeley's note confesses, 'I have very great difficulty in identifying this figure,' and speculates that 'it may represent the destruction of the demon Tarika by Kartikeya.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856-1857
Extent:
1 item

7. 1701.b.24(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
1701.b.24(2)
Title:
Varaha; or the Boar. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculpture of the Varaha, or boar incarnation of Vishnu, on the facade of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856-1857
Extent:
1 item

8. 1701.b.24(27)

Reference (shelfmark):
1701.b.24(27)
Title:
Another Temple in the neighbourhood [of Halebid]. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of the sculptured facade of a Chalukyan temple in the Halebid district: '...The sculptures appear to have been originally much inferior to the others, and they have suffered much more from time and weather.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856-1857
Extent:
1 item

9. 1701.b.24(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
1701.b.24(30)
Title:
[Sculpture on the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid.] Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculptured figures on the facade of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid: 'Is very similar to Plate XIX; the position of the chank and chakra is reversed. A female dancer is introduced instead of the many-armed god at the right of the other; the expre...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856-1857
Extent:
1 item

10. 1701.b.24(42)

Reference (shelfmark):
1701.b.24(42)
Title:
Doorway on the east side of the [Hoysaleshvara] Temple. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of a doorway of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid, flanked by elaborately carved guardian figures. Oakeley's note points out the cobweb visible in the doorway, no doubt to emphasize the definition achieved in his photographs.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856-1857
Extent:
1 item