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Madura. The painted corridor.

Photograph
ca. 1890 (made)
Artist/Maker
Bourne & Shepherd (photographers)
Place of origin
India (photographed)

A photograph depicting the interior of the Meenakshi Amman Temple, located in the temple city of Madurai, showing people sitting on the floor in the painted corridor.

Object details

Categories
Photographs
Topography
Architecture
Hinduism
Religion
Object type
Photograph
TitleMadura. The painted corridor. (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Gelatin-silver print from Samuel Bourne's original collodion negatives
Photographic Paper
Gelatin-Silver
Brief description
Photograph by Bourne & Shepherd, 'Madura. The painted corridor', 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 depicting the interior of the Meenakshi Amman Temple, located in the temple city of Madurai, showing people sitting on the floor in the painted corridor.
Dimensions
  • Height: 22.9cm
  • Width: 28.3cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990
Marks and inscriptions
  • (Inscribed with title)
  • '2822' (Numbered with Samuel Bourne's own catalogue number)
Subjects depicted
Pillars
Temples
People
Place depicted
India
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
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2370-1990

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Record createdFebruary 23, 2009
Record URL
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