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Photo 231(10)
- Record Id:
- 040-003057348
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003057338
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025702187.0x000b85
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 231(10)
- Title:
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Kala i Madri Badshah. Photographer: Survey of India
- Scope & Content:
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Inscription: Original sketch inscribed: 'Kala i Madri Badshah. 84. E.D.'
Genre: Landscape Photography
View looking towards the ruins of the fortified building, with figures on horseback in the foreground. Photographic copy of a sketch by Edward Durand, Assistant Commissioner, Afghan Boundary Commission. The letterpress description of this scene (from the printed list accompanying the duplicate set of these prints at Photo 12), reads: 'Kelat-i-Madri Badshah, one of many ruined mud houses of great antiquity, walls enormously thick, and building having evidently been several stories high, the whole bed of the Helmund from where we struck it till close on the Seistan lakes was covered with broken pottery and glassware, shewing signs of a very large population having been supported along the course of the river, and some of the ware having evidently been curious and valuable. Finds of old coins and gems are by no means rare; one of our native officers turned up himself a Greek ring, out of the ground.' Another copy at Photo 12 (++). The original wash drawing from which this reproduction is copied in held in The British Library, shelfmark WD393.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003057338
040-003057348 - Is part of:
- Photo 231 : Afghan Boundary Commission 1884-86. Photographer(s): Survey of India
Photo 231(10) : Kala i Madri Badshah. Photographer: Survey of India - Hierarchy:
- 032-003057338[0010]/040-003057348
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 231
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print - Start Date:
- 1884
- End Date:
- 1884
- Date Range:
- 1884
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 137 mm x 276 mm
Format: Photograph Album
Secondary Support: Paper
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Survey of India, India, 1767-
- Subjects:
- Surveys and Surveying
- Places:
- Afghanistan, Asia