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WD1092

Record Id:

032-003791958

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003791958

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100117343199.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

WD1092

Title:

Album of 26 ground plans of the Ajanta caves and 16 folios of drawings of sculpture and architectural details in the Ajanta caves. Artist(s): Gill, Robert (c.1824-1875)

Scope & Content:

26 ground plans of the Ajanta caves and 16 folios of drawings of sculpture and architectural details in the Ajanta caves. c.1850.

f.1 inscribed: ‘Original Drawings from the Buddhist Temples at Ajanta. By Capt. R. Gill.’ Stamped with East India Company Museum numbers.

Pencil, pen-and-ink and wash; size of volume, 27 by 20.5 ins. Deposited c.1850.

These drawings were bound.up in the late nineteenth century with Burgess's drawings of Ajanta (see WD2213-2214), but they have now been separated and rebound.

ff.2-19 26 ground plans of.the Ajanta Caves.

f.20 Cave 2. Entrance door.

f.21 Cave 2. Shrine door.

f.22 Cave 6. Shrine door in lower storey.

f.23 Cave 2. Entrance to cell at right hand end of.porch.

f.24 Cave 7. Shrine door.

f.25 Cave 7. Sculptures on left wall of.antechamber.

f.26 Cave 2. Sculptures in subsidiary shrines.

f.27 Cave 1. Friezes on facade.

f.28 Cave 1. Narrative panels on the friezes on facade.

ff.30-35 Cave 1. Details of.pillars and pilasters.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 album

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Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1850

End Date:

1855

Date Range:

c 1850

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