View of the outer gopura, rampart, and moat, Pirakatisvarar Tirukkoyil (also known as the Brihadisvara or Rajarajesvara Temple), Tanjore (now Thanjuvar), India

People:

Samuel Bourne (photographer)

Title:

View of the outer gopura, rampart, and moat, Pirakatisvarar Tirukkoyil (also known as the Brihadisvara or Rajarajesvara Temple), Tanjore (now Thanjuvar), India

Date:

1869

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print from wet collodion glass plate negative

Dimensions:

comp.: 17.9 x 31.9 cm

Reference number:

PH1980:0412

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, u.r.: "Trichi [?]"; and l.c.: "2044" signed ? and numbered - by the photographer ? scratched in the negative, l.l.: "Bourne / 2044."

Location:

Thanjavur; Tamil Nadu; India;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

gateway
wall
gopura
moat
rampart
gate tower

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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