View of Allah Babu's Mosque [?] on the left with an older mosque on the far left and a tomb on the right, Beejapore (now Bijapur), India

People:

Thomas Biggs (photographer)
William Loch (photographer)

Title:

View of Allah Babu's Mosque [?] on the left with an older mosque on the far left and a tomb on the right, Beejapore (now Bijapur), India

Date:

March - April 1855

Description:

- Allah Babu's Mosque and Tomb. The photograph shows two domed buildings with minarets. The one on the right is definitely a tomb. On the left may be a mosque with its 3 bay façade. The photographer was facing north-west. To the left of the larger mosque is a smaller, older one.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp. (comp. vertical): 22.7 x 27.6 cm (8 15/16 x 10 7/8 in.) page (bound): 37.1 x 54.7 cm (14 5/8 x 21 9/16 in.)

Reference number:

PH1980:1220:073

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

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
domes
towers (building divisions)
mosque
pointed arches
tombs
minarets

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

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