View of the Ibrahim Rauza complex showing the mosque on the right and the Taj Sultana Tomb on the left, Beejapore (now Bijapur), India

People:

William Loch (photographer)
Thomas Biggs (photographer)

Title:

View of the Ibrahim Rauza complex showing the mosque on the right and the Taj Sultana Tomb on the left, Beejapore (now Bijapur), India

Date:

March - April 1855

Description:

- The whole complex of the Ibrahim Rauza is pictured. The photograph is taken from outside the walls of the complex. To the right is the mosque and to the left is the tomb. The photographer was facing south southwest.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp. (comp. vertical): 25 x 38.4 cm (9 13/16 x 15 1/8 in.) page (bound): 37.3 x 54.8 cm (14 11/16 x 21 9/16 in.)

Reference number:

PH1980:1220:034

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

signed - by the photographer, written on the negative, l.r.: "TBiggs" [diagonally] 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

Subject Descriptive Terms:

ruins
gateway
domes
towers (building divisions)
mausoleum
mosque
pointed arches
tombs
minarets

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

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