Tomb of Hasan Khan Suri, father of Sher Shah, Sasaram. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view. See M.H.H. Kuraishi, 'List of ancient monuments...in the Province of Bihar and Orissa' (Calcutta, 1931), pp. 185-186 for description.
Interior of the Dressing Room of Hakim's Baths, Fatehpur Sikri. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of supporting pier, spandrel and part of vaulted ceiling, showing damage to stucco and mosaic surfaces. Reproduced in photogravure in E.W. Smith, 'The Moghul architecture of Fathpur-Sikri' (4 vols, Allahabad, 1894-98), vol 3, pl. 76.
View along the façade of Jahangir's Tomb, Shahdara, Lahore. Photographer: [?] Henry Hardy Cole.
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Oblique view along façade. 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.
Two sculpture 'chapels' or niches, one representing Buddha meeting an ascetic (Gaya-Kashyapa?), from Jamal-Garhi. Photographer: Craddock, James
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Two boxed pieces. Bloch: 'Sculptures of this class used to be called 'caitya-windows'. Their structural position was round the dome of a stupa, which used to have either one or four of such chapels.' Note with Jamal-Garhi prints reads: 'The plates entered here also include photographs taken from...
Sculpture pieces of winged figures and other fragments from Jamal-Garhi. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Boxed sculpture pieces. Note with Jamal-Garhi prints reads: 'The plates entered here also include photographs taken from sculptures coming from Takht-i-Bahl and Shahr-i-Buhlul. No separate arrangement was possible. Nearly all the sculptures coming from these places are now in the Indian Museum, ...