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Photo 1000/31(3225)
- Record Id:
- 041-003130263
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-003130146
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026192635.0x000dfa
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147551124.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1000/31(3225)
- Title:
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Carved stone window in Sidi Sayyid's Mosque, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Architectural Photography
Close view of the second of the pierced stone windows in the rear elevation of the mosque, carved in elaborate vegetable forms. India Museum no. 1468. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 1001 (3225).
Lyon supplies the following description in his 'Notes to accompany a series of photographs designed to illustrate the ancient architecture of Western India. Taken for Government and described by Captain Lyon' (Geneva, 1871):
576 and 577. - Close to the Gaol shown in No. 575 is the citadel itself. It is surrounded by a high wall and the great entrance is composed of three lofty arches, immediately on entering the enclosure, on turning sharp to the right and following the wall, the two carved windows as here represented will be seen. Their dimensions are ten feet by seven and they belong to a desecrated mosque built by Sudee Syeed and now used as a Court House. When the wonderful manner in which the slabs of stone have been pierced and fashioned into trees and palms, the pattern being so evenly and beautifully spread over the whole surface, it must be at once confessed that nothing yet described or represented quite comes up to this most lovely tracery. There are some exquisite specimens of open carvings at Agra and Delhi, but none equal to this.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003126686
040-003130146
041-003130263 - Is part of:
- Photo 1000 : Archaeological Survey of India Collections: India Office Series
Photo 1000/31 : Archaeological Survey of India Collections: India Office Series (volume 31).
Photo 1000/31(3225) : Carved stone window in Sidi Sayyid's Mosque, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David - Hierarchy:
- 032-003126686[0032]/040-003130146[0117]/041-003130263
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1000
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147551124.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print - Start Date:
- 1869
- End Date:
- 1869
- Date Range:
- 1869
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 203 mm x 277 mm
Format: Bound in Volume
Secondary Support: Card
- Former External References:
- 577
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)