View of the Kanch Mahal (also known as Shish Mahal) [Glass Palace], Amber (now Amer) Fort, India

People:

Bourne & Shepherd (photographic studio)
Colin Murray (photographer)
Sawai Jai Singh, Maharaja of Jaipur (role unspecified)

Title:

View of the Kanch Mahal (also known as Shish Mahal) [Glass Palace], Amber (now Amer) Fort, India

Date:

1870s

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 23.7 x 29.4 cm secondary support: 33.2 x 42.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1982:0432:060

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed and numbered - by the photographer ? scratched in the negative, l.l.: "Bourne & Shepherd / 2317" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.l.: "2317" [diagonally] inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.l. to l.r.: with title

Location:

Amer; Rajasthan; India;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

palace
fort
columns (architectural elements)
cusped arches
brackets (structural elements)
marble inlays

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

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