Shah Alum's Tomb. Interior. Ahmedabad.

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Artist/Maker	Bourne & Shepherd (photographers)
Place of origin	India (photographed)

A photograph depicting an interior view of the tomb of Shah Alam, Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

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Categories	Photographs Topography Architecture Islam Religion Death
Object type	Photograph
Title	Shah Alum's Tomb. Interior. Ahmedabad. (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, 'Shah Alum's Tomb. Interior. Ahmedabad', 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 an interior view of the tomb of Shah Alam, Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Dimensions	Height: 23.5cm Width: 27.8cm Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990
Marks and inscriptions	(Inscribed with the title) '2242' (Numbered with Samuel Bourne's own catalogue number)
Subject depicted	Tomb
Places depicted	India Gujarat
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.2373-1990

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Record created	February 23, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O191316/shah-alums-tomb-interior-ahmedabad-photograph-bourne--shepherd/

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