View of Bhima's Gate, Vijayanagara, Hampi, India

People:

Colonel Alexander John Greenlaw (photographer)
John Gollings (printer)
Edgar Gibbons (role unspecified)

Title:

View of Bhima's Gate, Vijayanagara, Hampi, India

Date:

1856

Description:

- Photographs PH1986:1064 - PH1986:1163 comprise 50 photographs by Colonel Alexander John Greenlaw, printed by John Gollings, and 50 photographs by John Gollings. On 22 May 1983, Edgar Gibbons commissioned Gollings to print three sets of photographs from a group of waxed-paper negatives taken in 1856 by Greenlaw of Vijayanagara. Eventually, only two sets of prints were made between the dates 23 May and 31 May 1983, of which photographs PH1986:1064 - PH1986:1113 were a part (Unpublished Document, 22 May 1983; Gibbons, 18 February 1990). From 1981 until 1984, John Gollings visited Vijayanagara and produced matching photographs of the Greenlaw series (Mitchell, 11 May 1984), with efforts taken to fix his camera, tripod and other equipment at almost the same spots as Greenlaw (Rao, p. 4). Photographs PH1986:1114 - PH1986:1163 represent his matching photographs.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print from a waxed paper negative

Dimensions:

comp.: 37.8 x 30.5 cm sheet: 47.8 x 38.1 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:1068

Point of View:

exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Printed on Kodak printing-out paper.

Inscription:

signed, numbered and dated - by the photographer ?, scratched in the negative, l.r.: "Greenlaw. / 15-56." signed, dated and inscribed - by the printer, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, u.l.: with signature [underlined] and "'85 / POP PRINT / LONDON 1983 / BY GOLLINGS." stamped - in typescript and black ink, on the sheet, verso, u.r.: "Printed from original negative by / Alexander J. Greenlaw, circa 1856. / Not to be reproduced without / Permission of E. Gibbons, c/o Barclays / Bank PLC. Camberley, Surrey, U.K." [sideways] numbered and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, u.l.: "2000 S" [sideways] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, u.l.: "28" [circled]

Location:

Hampi; Karnataka; India;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

ruins
people
gateway
masonry
city gate
city wall

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

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