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WD3089(37b)
- Record Id:
- 041-003974802
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003281012
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100133257608.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100166446505.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD3089(37b)
- Title:
- Ornamental Hindoo Pillar. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857)
- Scope & Content:
- f. 37 Carved pillar, Kalyan Mandapa, Vellore. Inscribed on reverse: ‘The pillar of a Hindu temple. Pedestal and Capital grey granite. Figure green syenite (I think). This is rather a simple ornamented pillar and therefore you may form some idea what a highly finished one must be. Generally speaking the flat roofs of the temples are supported by pillars in profusion all more or less carved over with figures. The place I took this from is a very fine temple in the fort of Vellore now converted into the arsenal, for Tippo when he took Vellore, defiled it forever as a place of worship by killing a cow in the sanctum sanctorum and sprinkling its blood on the lintels and threshold of the entrance gate. There is in this temple too, a curious treasure chamber underground the entrance to which is a shaft from this well, a subterraneous passage communicates with the fort ditch so that in times of danger they had only to pull up the sluice and the water rushing in filled the room and rose about halfway up the shaft so that it looked exactly like a simple well and nobody would ever think there was a room beneath. Wasn’t that a cute idea.’ Inscribed below: 'No. 42. Ornamental Hindoo Pillar'
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003281012
040-003974725
041-003974802 - Is part of:
- WD3089, ff.1-38, WD3090-3094 : CRUMP, CHARLES WADE (1825-1857) Born Halford, Warwickshire, son of Rev. Charles Collins Crump. Madras…
WD3089 : Album of 40 drawings that appear to have been made during periods of duty in Central India and while on furlough and sick leave.…
WD3089(37b) : Ornamental Hindoo Pillar. Artist(s): Crump, Charles Wade (1825-1857) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003281012[0002]/040-003974725[0042]/041-003974802
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: WD3089, ff.1-38, WD3090-3094
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100166446505.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1840
- End Date:
- 1851
- Date Range:
- c 1845-1851
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Medium: watercolour; scratching out
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)