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Photo 982(2)
- Record Id:
- 040-003299008
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003299006
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028276000.0x000723
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 982(2)
- Title:
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The Ma Sahib, or Queen Mother's Tomb [Hayat Bakshi Begum's Tomb, Golconda]. Photographer: Nixon, H. J.
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Architectural Photography
General View of Hayat Bakshi Begum's Tomb. 'This photograph was taken from the Tomb of Kullee Kootub Shah, which is situated about 250 yards to the south of it. It is in this tomb that the English visitors generally 'put up', during their pic-nic excursions to the 'City of the Dead'. The native care-takers who are in charge of it, and who act the part of ciceroni to visitors, knowing John Bull's characteristic fancy for the clean, thinking that they could give the tomb something of the appearance of the dwellings of the latter, actually white-washed the interior and south-western verandahs - never dreaming of the injury they were doing to the appearance of the beautifully chiselled granite columns that support it, or to the amount of labour they would entail on the unfortunate artist who photographed it, in endeavouring to render the detail, with the glaring contrast of the white-washed portion and the time-sombred appearance of the other parts.'
[Albumen print, 247x191mm].
Subjects = Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Islamic); tombs
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003299006
040-003299008 - Is part of:
- Photo 982 : Album of views of His Highness the Nizam's dominions. Photographed by H. J. Nixon, Secunderabad, Deccan. Photographer(s): Nixon, H. J.
Photo 982(2) : The Ma Sahib, or Queen Mother's Tomb [Hayat Bakshi Begum's Tomb, Golconda]. Photographer: Nixon, H. J. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003299006[0002]/040-003299008
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 982
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1864
- End Date:
- 1866
- Date Range:
- c 1865
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Nixon, H. J., fl 1860s
- Subjects:
- Hayat Bakshi Begum's Tomb (Golconda)
- Places:
- Golconda, Andhra Pradesh, India, Asia