Aerial view of buildings, temples, ghats, and the Ganges River, Benares (now Varanasi), India

People:

Samuel Bourne (photographer)

Title:

Aerial view of buildings, temples, ghats, and the Ganges River, Benares (now Varanasi), India

Date:

1866

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.0 x 31.9 cm secondary support: 36.8 x 41.7 cm

Reference number:

PH1979:0438:002

Point of View:

aerial view
exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- There are two strips of white tape affixed to the verso of the secondary support on upper left and right.

Inscription:

numbered and inscribed - by the photographer ?, in pen and black ink, scratched in the negative, l.c.: "1166 / Bourne" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: with title numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, u.r.: "1054"

Location:

Varanasi; Uttar Pradesh; India;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

river
parapets
temples
towers (building divisions)
buildings
ghats
finials
sikhara

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

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