View of the Manikarnika Burning Ghat, Benares (now Varanasi), India

People:

Samuel Bourne (photographer)
Ahalya Bai Holkar, Rani of Indore (role unspecified)

Title:

View of the Manikarnika Burning Ghat, Benares (now Varanasi), India

Date:

1866

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 23.0 x 28.5 cm secondary support: 33.2 x 42.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1982:0432:021

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed and numbered - by the photographer ? scratched in the negative, l.l.: "Bourne 1169" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.l.:"1169" [diagonally] inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: with title

Location:

Varanasi; Uttar Pradesh; India;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

river
temples
arches
ghat
sikharas
finials
step

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

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