Scope and Contents 296 x 225 mm. General view from the side of the Subrahmanya Temple in the courtyard of the Great Pagoda. This smaller temple is of later date than the main shrine (built in the 17th century), and is described by Fergusson (p. 365), as 'as exquisite a piece of decorative architecture as is to be found in the south of India, and though small, almost divides our admiration with the temple itself'. The temple is a single storey rectangular structure, decorated with pilasters of various design...

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319 x194 mm. View from near the entrance to the quadrangle looking towards the Great Stone Bull (see Y3022E/36), with massive Vimana of the temple beyond. No. 2045.

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241 x 295 mm. Duplicate of Y3022E/37.

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313 x 194 mm. View looking across the Vennar River near Tanjore, with an Indian figure posed in the water in the right foreground. On the further bank among the palm trees is a country residence with an impressive landing place on the riverside flanked by two towers. Bourne no. 2053.

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Two copies.

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321 x 188 mm. View looking along the street, with the carved stone representation of a wooden car in the right foreground and a goparam (entrance gateway) beyond. No. 2040.

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Quarter-plate. Side entrance to part of main Gopura of Great Temple.

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Quarter-plate. Being drilled on the Maidan.

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints measuring approximately 210 x 160 mm mounted in an album bound in padded red leather and inscribed on the front cover VM [Victoria Mary] surmounted by a coronet. The end papers have a label 'Bourne and Shepherd : Artists, Photographers and Publishers. Calcutta, Simla and Bombay.' This album deals with architectural views in Gwalior, Orchha, Lucknow, Mandalay, Rangoon, Trichinopoly [i.e. Tiruchchirappalli], Tanjore, Madura, Ellora, Ajanta, Benares, Nepal, Palitana,...

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints measuring approximately 210 x 160 mm mounted in an album bound in padded red leather and inscribed on the front cover VM [Victoria Mary] surmounted by a coronet. The end papers have a label 'Bourne and Shepherd : Artists, Photographers and Publishers. Calcutta, Simla and Bombay.' This album deals with architectural views in Gwalior, Orchha, Lucknow, Mandalay, Rangoon, Trichinopoly [i.e. Tiruchchirappalli], Tanjore, Madura, Ellora, Ajanta, Benares, Nepal, Palitana,...

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Quarter-plate.

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Quarter-plate.

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243 x 293 mm. Showing the monumental vimana or tower over the cella of the great temple. This huge pagoda, completed in the early 11th century, is one of the finest surviving examples of Dravidian temple architecture. Bourne no. 2047.

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322 x 191 mm. View of the monumental statue of the bull Nandi in the temple courtyard at Tanjore. Carved from a single stab of granite and measuring 16 feet long by 12 feet high, the image is enclosed beneath a flat roof supported by pillars and stands between the gateway into the courtyard and the temple entrance itself. Bourne no. 2046.

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295x 242 mm. View of the inner gateway tower of the Great Pagoda at Tanjore. This view of the smaller gateway is taken from the SW, from inside the temple courtyard. A small part of the larger outer gopuram can be seen in the right background. Bourne no. 2050.

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320 x 193 mm. View looking along the moat with the overgrown remains of the city walls on the right. Situated 170 miles SSW of Madras on the Vennar River, Tanjore was one of the chief cities of the Chola and succeeding Hindu Kingdoms of southern India. Administration of the district passed to the British government in 1855. Bourne no. 2043.

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Quarter-plate. Showing the Gopura of the Great Temple. [With river in foreground].

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Quarter-plate. [Long paved approach].

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Quarter-plate. Behind it notice part of Gopura of the Great Temple, brightly illuminated.