Jeypore (Jaipur) - Entrance gate to the Maharaja's palace.
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Jeypore (Jaipur) – Entrance gate to the Maharaja’s palace.
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010Lahore Gate, Red Fort, Delhi, completed by Shah Jahan in 1648.
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010The most important gate into the fort complex derives its name from the fact that it faces in the direction of the city of Lahore (now in Pakistan). (more…)
Agra – the Delhi Gate and Fort.
Saturday, June 19th, 2010This is an antique albumen print from around 1870, mounted on a contemporary album leaf with titling in contemporary ink.
Curiously, on verso there is another albumen print from around the same time, titled ‘Agra – the Zenana’.
The photograph displays the grandest of the two entrances to the fort. It leads to an inner gate – the Elephant Gate or Hathi Pol. The construction of the fort was begun by the Emperor Akbar in 1565.
Agra - the Delhi Gate and Fort.
235mm x 190mm. (9.25 x 7.5ins). (more…)
‘The People of India; A Series of Photographic Illustrations of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan.’
Friday, June 18th, 2010Watson, J. Forbes and Kaye, Sir John William (editors). Text: Meadows Taylor, Colonel Philip.
This is the earliest attempt at a complete ethnographic documentation of India in photographs; in fact one of the very first such surveys attempted anywhere in the world.
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Golden Temple Amritsar.
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
Sikh Golden Temple Amritsar rare photo