• Samuel Bourne (photographer)

View of the southeast façade of the 'Ala'i Darvaza [Lofty Gate], Quwwat al-Islam [Might of Islam] Mosque Complex, Delhi, India

1865

Albumen silver print from wet collodion glass plate negative

comp.: 23.1 x 28.9 cm

PH1979:0496

• exterior view

signed ? and numbered - by the photographer ? scratched in the negative, l.c.: "Bourne 1380" labelled and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on a label attached to the CCA matting, l.r.: with title numbered - by unknown hands, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, c.: "96"; l.c.: "1380"; and in blue pencil, l.r.: "95" ["96" and "1380" have been crossed out with blue pencil]

Delhi; Delhi (Union Territory); India;

• architecture

• entrance
• gateway
• engaged columns
• steps
• pointed arches
• façade
• jali