View of the Mausoleum of Ibrahim Adil Shah II showing the mosque on the far left and the minarets of the northern gateway on the far right, Ibrahim Rauza complex, Beejapore (now Bijapur), India

People:

William Loch (photographer)
Thomas Biggs (photographer)

Title:

View of the Mausoleum of Ibrahim Adil Shah II showing the mosque on the far left and the minarets of the northern gateway on the far right, Ibrahim Rauza complex, Beejapore (now Bijapur), India

Date:

March - April 1855

Description:

- The tomb of Ibrahim Adil Shah II, his wife and children is pictured. Behind it is the mosque that forms part of the Rauza. To the far right are the minarets of the northern gateway. The photographer was facing west north west.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp. (comp. vertical): 26.1 x 37.8 cm (10 1/4 x 14 7/8 in.) page (bound): 37.2 x 54.7 cm (14 5/8 x 21 9/16 in.)

Reference number:

PH1980:1220:036

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

signed - by the photographer, written on the negative, l.l.: "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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