Photograph of elevations and a section of verandah windows, doors, beams, niches, mural paintings and a railing of the Ashar Mobarak, Beejapore (now Bijapur), India

People:

Thomas Biggs (photographer)
William Loch (photographer)

Title:

Photograph of elevations and a section of verandah windows, doors, beams, niches, mural paintings and a railing of the Ashar Mobarak, 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. (comp. vertical): 25.7 x 35.8 cm (10 1/8 x 14 1/8 in.) page (bound): 37.2 x 54.8 cm (14 5/8 x 21 9/16 in.)

Reference number:

PH1980:1220:055

Drawing Type:

line drawings
mechanical drawings (tool-aided drawings)
freehand drawings
renderings

Method of Projection:

sections (orthographic drawings)
elevations (drawings)

Point of View:

interior views

Inscription:

imprinted - in the image, u.l. to u.c.: with title; b.: "SCALE FOR WINDOW"; "SCALE FOR LOWER LINE OF DETAILS"; and "SCALE FOR DOORS AND RAILINGS"; and in various locations: with specifications 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:

courthouse
ruins
doors
window
pointed arches
shrine (structure)
columns (architectural elements)
porches
ceiling
niches
brackets (structural elements)

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

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