View of a dried-up water tank showing pavilions with the Lingaraj Temple complex in the background, Bhubaneswar, India

People:

Captain Henry Dixon (photographer)

Title:

View of a dried-up water tank showing pavilions with the Lingaraj Temple complex in the background, Bhubaneswar, India

Date:

ca. 1860s

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 24.0 x 29.2 cm secondary support: 37.2 x 37.1 cm

Reference number:

PH1980:1210

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

numbered and imprinted - on a decorative paper label affixed to mount, l.c.: "No. 3. / A CURIOUS TANK TO THE EAST OF THE GREAT TEMPLE, / SURROUNDED BY SEVENTY OR EIGHTY TEMPLES. / BOBENESWAR IN ORISSA. / PHOTOGRAPHED BY / CAPT. HENRY DIXON, 22ND M.N.I." stamped - by an unknown hand, blind embossed, on the secondary support, b.: "FORTES FORTUNA JUVAT" and D D [stamp is an oval shape formed by the inscriptions and enclosing a unicorn symbol"]

Location:

Bhubaneswar; Orissa; India;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

wall
steps
pavilions (garden structures)
temples
water tank
amalaka
ghat
finials

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

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