Front view of Mahishamardani cave, Mahabalipuram. Artist(s): Dibdin, Thomas Colman (1810-1893)
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Front view of Mahishamardani cave, Mahabalipuram, c.1845. Wash heightened with white; 33.3 by 24 cm. Purchased 1967. Note: A drawing by Dibdin for his lithograph reproduced in J. Fergusson ‘Illustrations of the rock cut temples of India’, London, 1845, plate 17. Dibdin’s drawings were worked...
Pillar in front of Chandranatha Jain temple, Mudbidri
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Pillar in front of Chandranatha Jain temple, Mudbidri. c.1815. Inscribed: ‘Elevation and Front View of a Pillar (formed of a Granite 52½ feet from the surface of the Earth in Height) placed facing the Pagoda at Morbidry’. Pen and ink and wash; 46.2 by 36.7cm. Purchased 1952, together with Ad...
Inscribed on reverse: 'Temple of Bharat Ji, Rikhikesh on the Ganges. November 1884. Dehra Dun'. Artist(s): Smythies, Gertrude Frances Morse (1855-1929)
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Inscribed on reverse: ‘Temple of Bharat Ji, Rikhikesh on the Ganges. November 1884. Dehra Dun. By G.F. Smythies’. Water-colour; 25.4 by 35.5 cm.
The Dagon Pagodah [Shwe Dagon Pagoda] Rangoon. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the roadway towards one of the covered flights of steps leading up to the temple platform of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, with the main pagoda tower (see f. 21), partially visible in the background.