View of the façade of the Moti Masjid [Pearl Mosque] with a courtyard and recessed pool in the foreground, Shahjahanabad (now Lal Qila or Red Fort), Delhi, India

People:

Samuel Bourne (photographer)

Title:

View of the façade of the Moti Masjid [Pearl Mosque] with a courtyard and recessed pool in the foreground, Shahjahanabad (now Lal Qila or Red Fort), Delhi, India

Date:

1866

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 24.9 x 28.8 cm secondary support: 33.2 x 42.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1982:0432:052

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed and numbered - by the photographer ? scratched in the negative, l.l.: "Bourne 1351" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.l.: "1331" [sic] [diagonally] inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.l to l.r.: with title

Location:

Lal Qila; Delhi; Delhi (Union Territory); India;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

courtyard
domes
steps
mosque
façade
kiosks
towers (single built works)
masjid
pool
finials
cusped arches
marble inlays

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

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