295 x 240 mm. View of the E facade of the Taj Mahal. Set on a 313 ft. square platform with minarets at each corner, the building and dome rise up 187 feet, with a further 30 feet added by the metal pinnacle on top of the dome. Built of white marble inlaid with precious stones, the Taj was erected by Emperor Shah Jahan on the bank of the Jumna SE of the city for his consort Arjmand Bannu (known as Mumtaz-i-Mahal) between 1630 and c. 1652. For Bourne's enraptured description of the tomb, seen soon after his arrival in India, see ‘British Journal of Photography’ 1 July 1863, pp. 269-270. Notwithstanding ‘the difficulties of successfully developing a white object, lit up by brilliant sunshine, and surrounded by dark cypress trees, a subject like this is worth any amount of trouble, and going any distance to secure’. Bourne no. 1080.