• Herbert George Ponting (photographer)
• Mumtaz Mahal, Empress, consort of Shahjahan, Emperor of India (role unspecified)
• Amanat Khan (calligrapher)
• Shahjahan, Emperor of India (role unspecified)
• Abdul Karim (role unspecified)
• Makramat Khan (role unspecified)
• Ustad Ahmad (role unspecified)

View of the Taj Mahal, Agra, India

between 1906 and 1907

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 35.2 x 45.5 cm sheet: 36.6 x 47.0 cm

PH1979:0178

• exterior view

- The photograph is attached to the CCA mount on the u.l. and u.r. with white woven tape. The sheet is torn on the l.l.

signed - by the photographer, in black pencil [?], on the image, l.l.: "H G Ponting" stamped - in typescript and black ink, on the sheet, verso, l.r.: "HERBERT G. PONTING, F.R.G.S. / Copyright" inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.c.: with title inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, c.: "E329"

Agra; Uttar Pradesh; India;

• architecture
• architecture de paysage

• trees
• domes
• mausoleum
• mahal
• minarets
• pools
• chhatris
• formal gardens