Photograph of a ceiling plan of the upper floor, window elevations, and detail drawings of door pillar brackets and railings of the Mehturee Mahal, Beejapore (now Bijapur), India

People:

William Loch (photographer)
Thomas Biggs (photographer)

Title:

Photograph of a ceiling plan of the upper floor, window elevations, and detail drawings of door pillar brackets and railings of the Mehturee Mahal, Beejapore (now Bijapur), India

Date:

March - April 1855

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Stage and Purpose:

record drawings
detail drawings

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 37.0 x 26.0 cm page: 54.4 x 37.6 cm

Reference number:

PH1980:1220:015

Drawing Type:

mechanical drawings (tool-aided drawings)
freehand drawings
renderings

Method of Projection:

plans (drawings)
elevations (drawings)

Point of View:

interior views
plan view

Inscription:

imprinted - in the image, t.: with title; c.l.: "ENLARGED BRACKET / Front Bracket of Back Door Pillar"; l.c.: "ELEVATION OF CENTRE DIVISION OF CEILING"; "ENLARGED DRAWING OF RAILING ROUND TOP OF BUILDING"; c.r.: "ENLARGED BRACKETS / Bracket OF Upper Back Window / Bracket OF Lower Back Window"; l.l.: "interior [sic] Pillar Upper Floor"; b.: "SCALE"; and "SCALE FOR RAILING AND INTERIOR WINDOW BRACKET"; l.r.: "Bracket over interior Window face Upper Floor"; and in various locations: with measurements numbered and imprinted - in black ink, on a paper label affixed to the secondary support below the image, l.c.: with title

Location:

Bijapur; Karnataka; India;

Subject:

architecture
interior design

Subject Descriptive Terms:

mosque
column (architectural element)
coffered ceiling
brackets (structural elements)

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

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