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Photo 1000/18(1888)
- Record Id:
- 041-003128587
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-003128549
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026192635.0x00076e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1000/18(1888)
- Title:
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Close view of entrance to the shrine of the old temple at Kasara, Gujarat. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Architectural Photography
Close view of doorway, showing carving on architraves.
Cousens describes his visit to Kasara/Kasera in his progress report of the Archaeological Survey of Western India for December 1889 to February 1890: 'At Kasera, then, we found a small, but very old, triple-shrined temple dedicated to S'va, Brahma, and Vishnu. It is profusely covered with sculpture, but has been very badly battered and defaced, and that maliciously, probably by the Muhammadan iconoclasts, who, in the early days of their ascendancy in India, so frequently overran Gujarat and destroyed and desecrated its shrines. The temple is now in disuse, and I was sorry to see that it was being used by the villagers as a cattle pen. I had it roughly cleaned out, but it is more than probable that on my departure it was used again for this purpose ... Being a very good specimen of its class, some time was devoted to it in making drawings and taking photographs...'
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003126686
040-003128549
041-003128587 - Is part of:
- Photo 1000 : Archaeological Survey of India Collections: India Office Series
Photo 1000/18 : Archaeological Survey of India Collections: India Office Series (volume 18: Gujarat). Photographer(s): Cousens, Henry
Photo 1000/18(1888) : Close view of entrance to the shrine of the old temple at Kasara, Gujarat. Photographer: Cousens, Henry - Hierarchy:
- 032-003126686[0019]/040-003128549[0038]/041-003128587
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1000
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print - Start Date:
- 1890
- End Date:
- 1890
- Date Range:
- Feb 1890
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 293 mm x 244 mm
Format: Bound in Volume
Secondary Support: Card
- Former External References:
- 1173
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Cousens, Henry, archaeologist and photographer in India, 1854-1933
- Subjects:
- Archaeological Survey Of India Collections
Archaeological Survey Of India: India Office Series
Architectural Elements
Architectural Styles
Architectural Types
Architecture
Art
Carving
Doors
Handicrafts
Hindu Architecture
Hindu Sculpture
Hindu Temples
Religious Buildings
Religious Sculpture
Sculpture
Stone Carving
Temples - Places:
- Kasara, Gujarat, Gujarāt, India, Asia
- Related Material:
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Original negative held