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Madura. Interior of the Hall of 1000 Pillars

Photograph
ca. 1890 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A photograph of the interior of the Meenakshi Amman Temple, located in the temple city of Madurai, showing a view of the Hall of 1000 Pillars.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleMadura. Interior of the Hall of 1000 Pillars (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Gelatin-silver print from Samuel Bourne's original collodion negatives
Brief description
Photograph by Bourne & Shepherd, 'Madura. Interior of the Hall of 1000 Pillars', from an album of 24 photographs of India, gelatin-silver prints made from Bourne's original collodion negatives, India, ca. 1890
Physical description
A photograph of the interior of the Meenakshi Amman Temple, located in the temple city of Madurai, showing a view of the Hall of 1000 Pillars.
Dimensions
  • Height: 22.8cm
  • Width: 28.5cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990
Marks and inscriptions
  • (Inscribed with the title)
  • '2821' (Numbered with Samuel Bourne's own catalogue number)
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990
  • Haworth-Booth, Mark (ed). The Golden age of British photography, 1839-1900. Millerton: Aperture in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1984. Number: 0905209672.
  • Heathcote, Pauline F. Samuel Bourne of Nottingham. History of Photography. April 1982, vol. 6, no. 2. pp. 99-112.
Collection
Accession number
E.2368-1990

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Record createdFebruary 23, 2009
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