View of the principal façade of the Taq-i Kisra [Iwan of Khusraw] (also known as the Taq-i Khusrau, Iwan-i Kisra and Taq-e Kisra), Ctesiphon (now Al Madain), Ottoman Empire (now in Iraq)

People:

Alexander Svoboda (photographer)
Ardashir I, King of Iran (patron)
Khosrow I, King of Persia (patron)

Title:

View of the principal façade of the Taq-i Kisra [Iwan of Khusraw] (also known as the Taq-i Khusrau, Iwan-i Kisra and Taq-e Kisra), Ctesiphon (now Al Madain), Ottoman Empire (now in Iraq)

Date:

between 1850 and 1888

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 22.8 x 34.9 cm secondary support: 23.6 x 35.5 cm

Reference number:

PH1981:0736

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

signed - by the photographer, on the negative, l.r.: "A. Svoboda / phot." inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, u.l.: "The Arch of Kosrus at Ctesiphon near Babylon / (front part 103 feet high)"; u.r.: "GE [6] / signed A. Svoboda, Phot." [circled]

Location:

Al Madain; Baghdad governorate; Iraq;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

ruins
palace
arches
iwan
vaulted hall

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

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