View of Karimuddin's Mosque from within the citadel showing the Sat Manzil on the right and the Chini Mahal and citadel walls in the background, Beejapore (now Bijapur), India

People:

Thomas Biggs (photographer)
William Loch (photographer)

Title:

View of Karimuddin's Mosque from within the citadel showing the Sat Manzil on the right and the Chini Mahal and citadel walls in the background, Beejapore (now Bijapur), India

Date:

March - April 1855

Description:

- The Mosque is photographed from within the citadel. Behind it is the Chini Mahal and behind that the citadel walls. The photographer was facing south west. To the right of the photograph can be seen the Sat Manzil.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp. (comp. vertical): 24.9 x 38.2 cm (9 13/16 x 15 1/16 in.) page (bound): 37.5 x 54.8 cm (14 3/4 x 21 9/16 in.)

Reference number:

PH1980:1220:005

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

signed - by the photographer, written on the negative, l.l.: "TBiggs" [sideways] numbered and imprinted - in black ink, on a paper label affixed to the secondary support below the image, b.: with title

Location:

Bijapur; Karnataka; India;

Subject:

architecture
military

Subject Descriptive Terms:

ruins
mosque
pointed arches
columns (architectural elements)
curtain walls (fortification elements)
citadel
college

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

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