• William Loch (photographer)
• Thomas Biggs (photographer)

View of the exterior walls of the citadel showing the Chinch Diddi Mosque on the right, Beejapore (now Bijapur), India

March - April 1855

- View of the walls of the citadel with the Chinch Diddi Mosque seen to the right of the photograph. The photograph is taken from outside the walls of the citadel, the photographer was facing west northwest.

Albumen silver print

comp. (comp. vertical): 24.9 x 38.4 cm (9 13/16 x 15 1/8 in.) page (bound): 37.6 x 54.7 cm (14 13/16 x 21 9/16 in.)

PH1980:1220:004

• exterior view

signed - by the photographer, written on the negative, l.l.: "TBiggs" [sideways] numbered and imprinted - in black ink, on a paper label affixed to the secondary support below the image, b.: with title

Bijapur; Karnataka; India;

• architecture
• militaire

• ruins
• dome
• mosque
• pointed arches
• curtain walls (fortification elements)
• minarets
• citadel