Close view of inscribed pillar in Bansa Mosque, Lalitpur. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography Poor qulaity photograph. See note to print 803. Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); architectural elements; columns; Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Islamic); inscr...
Front view of Adinatha Temple, Saurai, Jhansi District. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography North-Western Provinces list, p. 124: '...In spite of its smallness, it is a fine building, as it is richly ornamented outside with two rows of sculptures, of which some are the usual naked standing figures of the Jainas, while the rest are Brahminical.' Subje...
Inscribed elephant capital from Kankali Tila, at Mathura. Photographer: Caney, W.
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Genre: Architectural Photography Photograph of the capital, excavated by Cunningham in 1871, showing the inscription from the reign of the Kushan King Huvishka on the base. The head of the elephant has been broken off. Described in A. Cunningham, Report for the year 1871-72 (A.S.I. vol. III, Ca...
Statue of a man and lion, Mathura. Photographer: Unknown
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Assumed by Cunningham to be Hercules strangling the Nemaean lion and described in A. Cunningham, Report of a tour in the Central Provinces and Lower Gangetic Doab in 1881-82 (A.S.I. vol. XVII, Calcutta, 1884), pp. 109-10. The left half of pl. xxx appears to be based on this photograph. The piece...
Miscellaneous sculptures from Mathura. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
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Group of Kushan period sculptures - statues, railing pillar fragments, etc. - from Mathura, now in the Lucknow Museum. Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); Indian sculpture; Indian sculpture (Buddhist) Locat...
Miscellaneous sculptures from Mathura. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
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Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); Indian sculpture; Indian sculpture (Buddhist) Location = India; Mathura; Muttra; Uttar Pradesh
General view of the Caravanserai at Nurmahal. Photographer: Lawrie and Company, G.W.
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the outer walls of the caravanserai, with the main gateway at the left of the print. Described in A. Cunningham, 'Report of a tour in the Punjab in 1878-79' (A.S.I. vol. XIV, Calcutta, 1882), pp. 62-65. Subjects = Archaeological Survey of ...