Live veiling - Lot 738
[India]
128 photographs of India.
Not before 1900
€ 150 / 250
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Beschrijving lot
Sepia-toned gelatin silver prints, various dimensions, pasted in, ms. captions below.
Album oblong 4to, green cloth, gilt titled front cover.
Album illustrating a trip to India showing streets, monuments, religious places, people, elephants, nature, etc. Ahmedabad: Shah e Alam's Tomb and Mosque, Hutheesing Jain Temple, Rani Rupamati's Mosque; Mount Abu: Dilwara Temples, temple details; Amer: Amer Fort; Jeypore: city gate, street life, transportation by elephant; Delhi: Qutb Minar complex (Great Mosque of Delhi), Humayun's Tomb, Nizamuddin Dargah, Jama Masjid (one of the largest mosques in India), Tomb of Safdar Jang, Kalan Masjid; Lahore: Badshahi Masjid, Samadhi of Ranjit Singh, Shalamar Gardens, Wazir Khan Mosque, Tomb of Jahangir; Amritsar: Golden Temple; Agra: Tomb of Etmaduddaula, Taj Mahal; Sikandra: Tomb of Akbar the Great; Benares: ghats, Golden Temple; Puri: Jagannath Temple; Trichinopoly: Temple of Srirangam; Kandy: Temple of the Tooth, Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya, etc. And photos of the Elephanta Caves, snake charmers, the Himalaya, praying buddhists at Darjeeling, Nizam elephants, a procession and elephants of the temple Jambukeswarar in Thanjavur, the river side in Colombo (Sri Lanka), etc.