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010056.i.4(39)

Record Id:

040-003235135

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003235096

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100026869721.0x000616

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SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

010056.i.4(39)

Title:

Gate of the Great Imambara of Nawab Assuf-ood-daulah [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali

Scope & Content:

Genre: Architectural Photography

View looking along the road leading to the Rumi Darwaza, with the gateway of the Bara Imambara (also known as the Asafi Imambara) in the left foreground, with its facsimile gateway opposite: 'It has been the practice of Mohumedan potentates to provide, before their death, for the maintenance of the Imambaras, that were to contain their remains, by a rich endowment, but in this case, Nawab Ausuf-ood-dowlah seems to have neglected this important matter, hence the splendid building is now used as a gun-shed and ordnance store, a purpose that its illustrious certainly never anticipated it would be put to. It now stands as a monument of the utter futility of monarchs attempting to perpetuate their names and continue, after their demise, a sort of travestie of the courtly extravagance that caused them to be flattered and worshipped in life.'

Collection Area:

Printed Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003235096
040-003235135

Is part of:

010056.i.4 : The Lucknow album. Containing a series of fifty photographic views of Lucknow and its environs together with a large sized plan of…

010056.i.4(39) : Gate of the Great Imambara of Nawab Assuf-ood-daulah [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali

Hierarchy:

032-003235096[0039]/040-003235135

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: 010056.i.4

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

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Techniques:

Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print

Start Date:

1873

End Date:

1875

Date Range:

c 1874

Era:

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