Tank and small gopura in the Jalakanteshvara Temple, Vellore. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the tank (with small shrine in the centre), towards the gopura on the farther side. India Museum no. 805.
Close view of sculptured pillar of the mandapa of the Jalakanteshvara Temple, Vellore. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography Sculptured pillar in the form of a rearing elephant and rider. A more general view of the row of pillars of which this forms a part can be seen at print 2723. The mandapa itself has been converted into accommodation and the spaces between the pillars built in. I...
Tomb and mosque of Panch Pir, Sonargaon. Photographer: Brennand, W.
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards domed mosque, with ruins of brick structure in foreground. Described in Alexander Cunningham, 'Report of a tour in Bengal and Bihar in 1879-80' (ASI vol XV, Calcutta, 1882), p. 139: 'These are five small brick tombs arranged in one line on a...
Ruins of the Tomb of Ghias-ud-din Azam Shah, Sonargaon. Photographer: Brennand, W.
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Genre: Architectural Photography Showing a heap of finely carved stones. This print is reproduced as a lithograph in J. Wise, 'Notes on Sunargaon, Eastern Bengal' (Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. XLIII, part I, Calcutta, 1874), plate VIII: 'This tomb has fallen to pieces. The iro...
Tomb and mosque of Khundar Muhammad Yusuf, Sonargaon. Photographer: Brennand, W.
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the domed mosque, with two tombs, with curved, Bengali-style eaves, off to the left. Described in J. Wise, 'Notes on Sunargaon, Eastern Bengal' (Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. XLIII, part I, Calcutta, 1874), p. 89: '...This l...
Old bridge, called Dullalpur pul, Painam, Sonargaon. Photographer: Brennand, W.
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Genre: Architectural Photography Brick-built bridge of three arches. Described in J. Wise, 'Notes on Sunargaon, Eastern Bengal' (Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. XLIII, part I, Calcutta, 1874), p. 91: 'Painam, although a most singular village, possesses few ancient buildings. Ther...