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Exterior photograph of the tomb, taken in the courtyard.

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Exterior photograph of the polygonal entrance building (Buland Darwaza) on a round man-made stepped platform. The wall behind is visible, as are some adjacent trees.

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Exterior photograph of an entrance doorway to the Jama Masjid with its adjacent colonnade, taken in the courtyard. A sunken square fountain in the courtyard appears in the middle of the photograph.

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Album containing prints, of a total size of 300 x 185 mm. (actual print surface 260 x 165 mm.), on linen hinges bound by the India Office Library. Includes typed list of contents bound in at the beginning of the album.

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 Black-and-white photographs of buildings, locations and the native population. The majority of the photographs are labelled, but most are undated. They include some taken in Ceylon, Egypt and Morocco. The locations featured include Agra, Chandpur, Delhi, Fatehpur Sikri, Ismailia, Jaipur, Lucknow, Madras and Tangier. The nature of the photographs would suggest that they were taken for personal interest rather than in connection with Pringle's work. There is a short descriptive note at...

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...

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A general plan showing the outer wall of Fatehpur-Sikri, capital of the Emperor Akbar, 1569-1605.

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297 x 241 mm. Close up of a section of marble screen on the exterior of Sheik Selim Chisti's mausoleum at Fatehpur Sikri. Bourne no. 1266.

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232 x 295 mm.

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...

Scope and Contents 298 x 231 mm. View looking NW across the courtyard of the great mosque of Fatehpur Sikri towards the tomb of Sheikh Selim Chisti, with part of the N gateway visible at the extreme left. The tomb is a square marble building with screens formed of pierced tracery and surmounted by a dome. The deep cornices are supported by elaborately formed brackets. The building was originally of red sandstone but was later covered in marble. The city of Fatehpur Sikri was founded in 1569 by the Emperor...

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315 x 188 mm.

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Half-plate. Showing centre pillar with gigantic capital on which tradition says Akhbar used to sit. (Fisher).

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Half-plate (landscape format). The domes of roof of the Turkish bath show below the great gate.

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Half-plate (landscape format). Akbar used to sit in the projecting building shown at back. In the foreground note the stone ring to which an elephant was tied for the purpose of trampling criminals to death.

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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Quarter-plate. In white marble.

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Half-plate (landscape format). Showing part of covered passage from Khawbgah to the Paneh Mahal; stairway leads down to here. (Fisher).

Scope and Contents 297 x 232 mm. View looking SW across the ruins of the city towards the Buland Darwazah (Gate of Victory), the S gateway into the mosque precinct (see QM 4/55). The view appears to be taken from the top of the Diwan-i-Khas or Private Audience Hall, and shows the Panch Mahal or Five Storey Palace (at left of print, with the open space of the 'Pachisi' court in front) and the domes of the Rajah Birbali's house (right background). Fatehpur Sikri did not remain the imperial capital for any great...