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2551. Photo 1002/1(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/1(16)
Title:
Detail of moulding at the base of temples Nos. 1 and 2 (Ganesha and Durga Temples), Barakar, Burdwan District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '12B' in the negative Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of lower part of temple shikaras. The temple group is described in 'List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal. Corrected up to 31st August 1895' (Calcutta, 1896), pp. 8-9: 'Barakar is situated on the Grand Trun...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872-1873
Extent:
1 item

2552. Photo 1002/1(40)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/1(40)
Title:
Close view of statue lying on the ground near the Mosque of Anu Nasir Khan, Jajpur, Cuttack District. Photographer: Cornish, William Henry
Scope & Content:
Close view of the statue also seen in Photo 1002/1 (39). According to Theodor Bloch, 'The statue looks like an image of Avalokiteçvara.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

2553. Photo 1002/2(89)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/2(89)
Title:
Front view of the old mosque at Tribeni, Hugli District (Mosque of Zafar Khan Ghazi). Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View along arcaded facade, much overgrown. Described in 'List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal. Revised and corrected up to 31st August 1895' (Calcutta, 1896), pp. 40-41. See also, George Michell (ed), 'The Islamic Heritage of Bengal' (UNESCO, Paris, 1984), p. 135.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1872-1873
Extent:
1 item

2554. Photo 1002/21(1100)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/21(1100)
Title:
Buddhist sculpture slab from the lower monastery at Nuttu, Peshawar District: the Nirvana of Buddha. Photographer: Serrot, M.
Scope & Content:
This is one of a series of photographs taken for Cole at Mardan by Serrot, and not, as Bloch's list states, by Cole himself. Reproduced in photogravure in Illustrations of Graeco-Buddhist sculptures from the Yusufzai District, in vol. I of H.H. Cole, Preservation of monuments in India (c. 1885),...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1883
Extent:
1 item

2555. Photo 1002/22(1108)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/22(1108)
Title:
Frieze from the upper monastery at Nuttu, Peshawar: Buddha's pyre and worship of his ashes. Photographer: Serrot, M.
Scope & Content:
This is one of a series of photographs taken for Cole at Mardan by Serrot, and not, as Bloch's list states, by Cole himself. Reproduced in photogravure in Illustrations of Graeco-Buddhist sculptures from the Yusufzai District, in vol. I of H.H. Cole, 'Preservation of monuments in India' (c. 1885...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1883
Extent:
1 item

2556. Photo 1002/23(1161)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/23(1161)
Title:
Heads of Buddha and Bodhisattva statues, and sculpture slab representing worship of a stupa, from the Swat Valley [Loriyan Tangai]. Photographer: Alexander Edwin Caddy.
Scope & Content:
A somewhat faded print. Theodore Bloch, in A list of the photographic negatives of Indian antiquities in the collection of the Indian Museum: with which is incorporated the list of similar negatives in the possession of the India Office (Calcutta: 1900), notes that the sculptures are 'said to b...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 item

2557. Photo 1002/25(1284)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/25(1284)
Title:
Close view of moulding at base of tower of large temple at Khalari, Raipur District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = Indian architecture
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1873-1874
Extent:
1 item

2558. Photo 1002/28(1476)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/28(1476)
Title:
Photographic copy of a drawing of the restored East Gateway or Torana of the Stupa of Bharhut. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Credited to Beglar in Bloch's list, but possibly by an unidentified photographer. Reproduced in autotype in Alexander Cunningham, 'The Stupa of Bharhut' (London, 1879), pl. vi. Torana and railing now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Subjects =Indian architecture
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

2559. Photo 1002/29(1512)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/29(1512)
Title:
View looking along the Betwa River towards the cenotaphs of the Orchha Rajas, Orchha. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography On the left, and most distant, is the Cenotaph of Bir Singh Deo. Subjects = Indian architecture
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880s
Extent:
1 item

2560. Photo 1002/30(1533)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/30(1533)
Title:
Close view of the central arch of the screen of the Arhai-din-ka-Jhonpra Mosque, Ajmer. Photographer: Baudesson, O.S.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of the liwan of the mosque, decorated with calligraphic motifs carved in relief. Inside the mosque can be seen some of the columns constructed from three separate pillars placed one on top of the other to gain extra height. Subjects = Indian architecture
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

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