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111. Photo 254/3(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 254/3(3)
Title:
Town Hall, Fort, Bombay. Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
Scope & Content:
View looking towards the Town Hall from the south-west.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

112. Photo 254/3(55)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 254/3(55)
Title:
Malik-i-Maidan [the Great Gun of Bijapur]. Photographer: Unknown.
Scope & Content:
View of the great cannon, showing the decoration at the mouth of the muzzle in the form of a monster devouring an elephant.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 item

113. Photo 254/3(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 254/3(23)
Title:
Caves of Elephanta. Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Interior of Shiva Temple. Another copy at Photo 140 (17). Subjects = Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Hindu); rock-cut temples; temples
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

114. Photo 254/3(57)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 254/3(57)
Title:
The Taj Bowry or Crown Well, Beejapore. Cut stone tank 100 yards square, 50 feet deep & surrounded by a collonade [sic] and gallery. Entrance through an arch of 36 feet span. Photographer: Hinton, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Showing entrance arch to the Taj Bauri, flanked by domed towers, with the tank beyond. Print 16 of Henry Hinton's The Ruins of Beejapoor, in a series of nineteen views from collodion negatives (Bombay, 1860). Subjects = gateways; Indian architecture; Indian ar...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 item

115. Photo 254/3(45)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 254/3(45)
Title:
Grand Tomb of Mahomed Shah, 6th King of Beejapore, called the Guli Goombaz or Rose Dome. Photographer: Hinton, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Gol Gumbaz, built 1659. Caption continues, '...built on a terrace 200 yards square. Height of tomb externally 198 ft, internally 175. Diameter of dome 124 feet, 4 minarets of 8 storeys, 12 ft broad entered by winding staircases terminating in...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 item

116. Photo 254/3(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 254/3(34)
Title:
Tombs [sic, for temples] at Waee [Wai] near Mahableshwar. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Ganpati Temple at Wai.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

117. Photo 254/3(42)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 254/3(42)
Title:
Malik-i-maidan, or Monarch of the Plain, 15 ft long, 5 ft diameter & bore 2'-6". Gun has a Persian inscription on it 'that Aurungzebe captured the malik-i-maidan in the 1097th year of the Hegira' [Bijapur]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View of the great gun at Bijapur. Subjects = arms and armour; cannons
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

118. Photo 254/3(70)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 254/3(70)
Title:
House at Oosor [Hosur], Salem District, built by Mr Brett M.C.S. & inhabited by Sub-Collector of Salem. Photographer: Dixon, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view from the driveway: 'The divisional officer's bungalow, locally called the Castle, was built at great cost by a former collector, Mr Brett (1859-62), when Hosur was the head-quarters of the District. It is in the style of an English mediaeval castle,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

119. Photo 254/3(46)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 254/3(46)
Title:
Ibrahim Rozah Tomb, Tomb of Ibrahim Shah II, Mosque opposite 105ftx66ft, with a front of 5 arches. Built 1626 AD took 12 years building. Aurungzebe took up his quarters in it when besieging the place in 1686. [Bijapur.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
General view of the Ibrahim Rauza, the collection of buildings which includes the tombs of Ibrahim Adil Shah II and his queen, Taj Sultana and a mosque.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 item

120. Photo 254/3(48)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 254/3(48)
Title:
Asar-i-Sharaf. Fine verandah 33 ft x 120 ft, roof supported by four massive wooden pillars, fine reservoir in front 25 yds x 60 yds. [Bijapur]. Photographer: Unknown.
Scope & Content:
View of the Asar Mahal, built as a hall of justice and later used to house two hairs from the Prophet's beard.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 item