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Photo 1002/32(1734)

Record Id:

041-003135484

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003133616

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100026192681.0x000ad4

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 1002/32(1734)

Title:

General view of ruins and standing pillar at Chandravati. Photographer: Cousens, Henry

Scope & Content:

Genre: Architectural Photography

Described in Archaeological Survey of Western India, IX, pp. 96-99: 'When visited by Mr Cousens at a later date, he reported: 'Save portions of the basement of one temple, and a few blocks of the back wall of another, nothing now remains of the beautieful shrines discovered in 1822, excepting one solitary column which, by its loneliness, accentuates the desolation around it. A short walk from this reveals one of the chief causes of this; for there, under the railway bridge, on each side of the stone piers, in the river bed, lie in heaps upwards of a hundred cart-loads of sculptured fragments and images, - the unused portions of the vast amount of marble carried off from these temples. It has been used wholesale on the railway, to build the piers of the neighbouring bridges and culverts and to break up for metalling the permanent way. Nor is this at all a solitary instance of such wanton destruction by railway contractors and others: it has been only too common.' '

An almost identical view, taken on the same occasion, can be found at Photo 1000 (1867).

Subjects = Indian architecture, pillars

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003133616
040-003135435
041-003135484

Is part of:

Photo 1002 : Archaeological Survey of India Collections: Indian Museum Series. Photographer(s): Joseph Daviditch Melik Beglar, Shepherd and…
Photo 1002/32 : Archaeological Survey of India Collections: Indian Museum Series (volume 32, nos. 1686-1745: Bombay). Photographer(s): Cousens, Henry

Photo 1002/32(1734) : General view of ruins and standing pillar at Chandravati. Photographer: Cousens, Henry

Hierarchy:

032-003133616[0032]/040-003135435[0049]/041-003135484

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1002

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

1 item

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Not applicable

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Techniques:

Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print

Start Date:

1880

End Date:

1889

Date Range:

1880s

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