View of the Buland Darwaza of the Jami Mosque with houses in the foreground, Fatehpur Sikri, India

People:

Shepherd & Robertson (photographic studio)
Shaikh Salim (role unspecified)
Ahmad al-Chisti (role unspecified)
Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan (role unspecified)

Title:

View of the Buland Darwaza of the Jami Mosque with houses in the foreground, Fatehpur Sikri, India

Date:

between 1862 and 1863

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 28.4 x 36.1 cm secondary support: 53.4 x 70.7 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:1045

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support ?, verso, l.l.: "IC 49,28,1" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, c.: "SHEPHERD + ROBERTSON" inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.r.: with title and / "41" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "40" stamped - blind embossed, on the secondary support, u.r.: "BRISTOL / PAPER" [with crown in the centre] signed ? and numbered - by the photographers ?, in pen and black ? ink, on the photograph, l.l.: "Shepherd + Robertson / 345"

Location:

Fatehpur Sikri; Uttar Pradesh; India;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

trees
gateway
houses
wall
mosque
pishtaq
arches
chhatris

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

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