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Photo 1003(2628)

Record Id:

040-003138992

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003136414

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100026192714.0x000a11

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100147920914.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 1003(2628)

Title:

Sculptured jamb at entrance of brick temple, Rajapodor. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik

Scope & Content:

Genre: Architectural Photography

Described in J.D. Beglar, 'Report of tours in the South-Eastern Provinces in 1874-75 and 1875-76' (A.S.I. vol. XIII, Calcutta, 1882), pp. 121: 'The mahamandapa was supported partly on pillars and pilasters, which last were ornamented with life-sized sculptures of either men or divinities. I cannot speak too highly of the quality of the sculpture; although executed in an extremely soft yellowish sandstone, and consequently greatly worn and injured by time and weather, still, from what little remains, there is no doubt that they were executed in the best style of Hindu art...One sculpture, the only one that yet preserves some portion of its original beauty, represents a life-sized female under a royal canopy and standing on what (though from the excessive mutilation I cannot be certain) appears to have been a tortoise. The sculpture adorned the right jamb of the entrance to the sanctum.'

Subjects = Indian architecture; Indian sculpture

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003136414
040-003138992

Is part of:

Photo 1003 : Archaeological Survey of India Collections: Indian Museum Series (Duplicates)

Photo 1003(2628) : Sculptured jamb at entrance of brick temple, Rajapodor. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik

Hierarchy:

032-003136414[2576]/040-003138992

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1003

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Not applicable

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Techniques:

Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print

Start Date:

1874

End Date:

1876

Date Range:

1874-1876

Era:

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