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Half-plate (landscape format). Seen from the top of one of the minarets of the Jama Masjid. Note shadow of the other minaret upon the ground : note also the great bridge over the Jumna. (Fisher).

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275 x 215 mm.

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275 x 215 mm.

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275 x 215 mm.

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275 x 215 mm.

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286 x 233 mm. A similar view to Y3022D/1. Photograph by Sashe, no. 107.

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Quarter-plate. From a balcony in the Chitti Kaba.

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Half-plate. The front of the mosque.

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223 x 180 mm. (p. 291).

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An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The numbering is sequenced from 1 to 131, but 101 is omitted. 14 of these prints are loose (118-131) , and are kept in a separate envelope in the album. Some of the prints are good quality professional work. Some of the photographs are captioned in ink; in other cases the titles have been derived from duplicate copies in Davies' other Indian album or from other photographs of the same scenes.

Scope and Contents From the Series: An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The prints are of two types; large professional photographs, chiefly of Benares, Delhi, and Agra, and smaller amateur prints. presumably by Davies, relating both to these places and to Kashmir - river and mountain scenes. These are chiefly on left hand pages, with professional photographs on the right, and are captioned. Towards the end of the album, after a series of Agra scenes, there is a group of interesting...

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285 x 205 mm. View looking across the quadrangle towards the mosque itself. No. 1355.

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296 x 241 mm. The mosque is situated to the W of, and faces the Palace. Built of red sandstone and white marble between 1644 and 1658. Bourne no. 1354.

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295 x 237 mm. View showing the N facade (exterior) of the Kashmir Gate with the dome of Skinner's Church in the background. The view looks along the moat and shows the bullet and shell damage which this gateway to the city sustained during the Indian Mutiny. The double arched gateway formed the N entrance to the city and was one of the points of entry when British forces occupied the city in 1857. Bourne no. 1357.

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284 x 219 mm. See also Y3022D/6. Photograph by Sashe.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format).

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An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The numbering is sequenced from 1 to 131, but 101 is omitted. 14 of these prints are loose (118-131) , and are kept in a separate envelope in the album. Some of the prints are good quality professional work. Some of the photographs are captioned in ink; in other cases the titles have been derived from duplicate copies in Davies' other Indian album or from other photographs of the same scenes.

Scope and Contents From the Series: An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The prints are of two types; large professional photographs, chiefly of Benares, Delhi, and Agra, and smaller amateur prints. presumably by Davies, relating both to these places and to Kashmir - river and mountain scenes. These are chiefly on left hand pages, with professional photographs on the right, and are captioned. Towards the end of the album, after a series of Agra scenes, there is a group of interesting...

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265 x 200 mm. No. 1975.

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184x235mm. View of the Kutub (or Qutb) Minar, the 250 foot 'Tower of Victory' standing in the ruins of the mosque in Old Delhi. The lower three decorated storeys, probably designed by masons from Ghazni, were either built or completed by the monarch Altumsh between 1196 and 1235 A.D. The upper parts of the tower were added by Sultan Firuz Shah in 1368. For a reconstructed view of the mosque, see J.H. Page, 'Guide to the Qutb, Delhi' (Calcutta, 1927), plate 2.

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350 x 250 mm.

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180 x 250 mm. No. 1984.

Scope and Contents From the Series: An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The prints are of two types; large professional photographs, chiefly of Benares, Delhi, and Agra, and smaller amateur prints. presumably by Davies, relating both to these places and to Kashmir - river and mountain scenes. These are chiefly on left hand pages, with professional photographs on the right, and are captioned. Towards the end of the album, after a series of Agra scenes, there is a group of interesting...

Scope and Contents 294 x 242 mm. Showing the Kutub Minar with the ruins of the mosque to the right. The top of the famous iron pillar (see Y3022L/11) can be seen between the two archways in the courtyard. The view looks W from the Court of Ala-uddin. To the left of the Katub is the Alai Darwazah, a red sandstone domed building built in 1310 AD and forming the S entrance to the mosque enclosure. See plan of the ruins in Murray's ‘Handbook for travellers in India Burma and Ceylon’ (1909 edn. p. 209). Bourne no....

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236 x 290 mm. See Y3022/D8-10. Photograph by Sashe, no. 134.