[Nandi Pavilion and entrance gopara, Brihadishvara Temple, Tanjore.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View from the south-west, the Nandi pavilion in the left foreground. Subjects = architectural elements; gopuras; Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Hindu); Nandi pavilions; temples
View on the Railway - Columbo [sic] to Kandy, Ceylon. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Genre: Landscape Photography Line passing through tunnel in rock face on the Colombo to Kandy line. Original negative number '2083' has been scratched out on print: the pencilled number '2129' on the reverse corresponds with the print entitled 'View on the Ceylon Railway' in the Bourne & Sh...
Genre: Architectural Photography Looking towards the two main pagodas of the 8th-century Shore temple. With the sea at the right. A modern note on the mount identifying the photographer as Alexander Rea is unconvincing. The prints appear to date from the 1860s (or possibly 1870s); Rea did not a...
The Dilkusha, Lucknow. Photographer: Beato, Felice
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the main facade of the Dilkusha or Heart's Delight, a hunting box built by Saadat Ali Khan in classical European style with an Ionic prostyle portico flanked by an octagonal and a square tower on either side. The building was the scene of fierce ...
Interior doorway Sas-Bahu temple, Gwalior Fort. Photographer: Dayal, Deen
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Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = architectural elements; doorways; Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Hindu); Indian sculpture; Indian sculpture (Hindu); temples
Interior of Sas-Bahu temple, Gwalior Fort. Photographer: Dayal, Deen
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the doorway seen in the preceding print, but more distant and showing square pillars cut with foliate designs in foreground. The braces supporting the cracked ceiling were placed in position by General Alexander Cunningham, while Executive Engineer at Gw...