EMF Oversize photographs
Contains 44 Results:
'21786 Left of door Viharra XVII / Ajanta', 1945
Photograph of a wall painting above a doorway, depicting two deities in a bed. Attendants are in the next 'room'.
'21789 Man on Horse back on a portion of wall left of Cave no 1 / Ajanta', 1945
Photograph of wall paintings.
'[59134 crossed out] 21793 Pathway Outside Chaityas X + IX / Ajanta Caves', 1945
Exterior photograph of the hillside. Two carvings of figures in relief are visible as is part of an arched doorway.
'21795 Detail of Pillars etc. Exterior Viharra [sic] no 1 / Ajanta caves', 1945
Exterior photograph of the pillared entrance to a cave. The carved capitals and 2 orders of friezes above them are visible.
'Ajanta', 1945
Envelope once containing 11 photographs of Ajanta.
'20188 Linga shrine. Elephanta', 1945
Photograph of the shrine within the interior of the cave, showing two pillars with striated capitals and two walls of the shrine with its monumental relief-carved figures on the outside.
'20189 Elephanta / Marriage of Shiva + Parvati', 1945
Photograph of the two figures carved in relief on the cave wall, and including several other figures surrounding them.
'20192 Entrance to Caves - Elephanta', 1945
Photograph of pillars and the entrance to the cave.
'Elephanta. Ellora', 1945
Envelope once containing 9 photographs of Elephanta and Ellora.
'66725 The Black Pagoda / near Puri', 1945
Photograph of 9 heavily carved orders of a doorframe or other decoration at the said monument.
'21292 Interior 1000 Pillars Mantapam. Vishnu Temple / Conjeeveran', 1945
Photograph of the interior of a temple at Kanchipuram. There are many pillars visible featuring rearing horses and warriors.
'62321 The Seven Pagodas / Mahabalipurum / near Madras', 1945
Photograph showing 2 small stone monuments featuring niches with dancing and standing figures carved in relief, and part of a third building, with a carved stone lion in the courtyard they define.
'21321 Carved + Painted Figures of Trimurti Naik + Family, in the Choultry / Madura', 1945
Photograph of carved figure on pillars in the choultry (halting place) of Tirumala Nayaka.
'21284 General View of Temple Tirruvanamalli', 1945
Photograph showing the temple complex at Tiruvannamalai. Taken from a height.
'21287 Second courtyard / Brumnatheeran / Tirruvanamalli', 1945
Photograph showing two temples and part of a courtyard with hills in the background.
Devataon ki Gai, Kamadhenu (Cow of Deities, Wish Cow), 1940 - 1949
Colourful poster with writing in ?Hindu showing a cow superimposed with deities. Other deities and groups gather around, including an Englishman seated on a crate with a cup of tea in hand whose caption (the only one in English) reads 'give me milk'.
'Mathuna [sic]. Devi Jagadamba Temple, s[outh] wall. Khajraho', 1912 - 1945
Cutting from a magazine, probably the same as in EMF/27X/120, showing two entwined figures in bas-relief on stone. The back of the page is part of an art criticism essay on some aspect of Indian art and architecture.
'Ambernath', 1912 - 1945
Cutting probably from the same magazine as EMF/27X/118 showing a a head and shoulders carved in bas relief in stone.
'20089 Eed [sic] Festival / Delhi', 1912 - 1945
Photograph showing worshippers in a very large courtyard, kneeling and bowing, all facing the same direction.