Buddhist sculptures from the Swat Valley. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
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Large collection of pieces, including heads of Buddhas, sculpture slabs, 'chapels' or niches, pieces of friezes and other fragments. 'Now in the Indian Museum' (Bloch).
Reconstructed small stupa, Swat Valley. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
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Genre: Archaeological Photography 'A fanciful restauration 'from portions found near Gandheri'' (Bloch). Now in the Indian Museum, where this photograph may have been taken. '...The present village of Gandheri, which may be connected with the old name Gandhara...A little north of Gandheri, and ...
Statue of Bodhisattva from Sahri Bahlol, Peshawar District. Photographer: [?] Henry Hardy Cole.
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Full-length standing bodhisattva, carved in the round, now in the Lahore Museum and captioned in the negative 'Lahore Museum. [From] Eusofzai. Sahri Bahlol'. Photograph attributed to Cole in Theodor Bloch, A list of the photographic negatives ... in the collection of The Indian Museum... (Calcu...
Statue of Bodhisattva from Takal Bala, Peshawar District. Photographer: [?] Henry Hardy Cole.
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Full-length seated bodhisattva, carved in the round, now in the Lahore Museum and captioned in the negative 'Lahore Museum. [From] Eusofzai. Takal Bala.' Takal Bala is situated just outside Peshawar. The museum label beneath the sculpture reads: 'Found by Colonel J. W. Johnstone at Teakal near P...
Fragment of Buddhist sculpture showing a female devotee worshipping a lamp held up by a monk, Peshawar District. Photographer: [?] Henry Hardy Cole.
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Precise find-spot in the Peshawar District unknown. Piece probably now in the Lahore Museum. Photograph attributed to Cole in Theodor Bloch, A list of the photographic negatives ... in the collection of The Indian Museum... (Calcutta: 1900), but probably commissioned rather than taken by him.