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Series Title: Photographs of Northern India

Delhi. Tomb of the Emperor Shums ooo deen Allomsh, Builder of the Kootub Minar in the Ruins of Old Delhi

1863–70

Samuel Bourne

(British, 1834–1912)
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Culture
England
Medium
albumen print
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Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2024.5.33
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Samuel Bourne, the author of most the images in this album, was a banker in England before he moved to India to become a professional photographer.

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The 50 images in this album, all taken in the 1860s, move from the hill towns of the Himalayas down to cities including Lahore (now in Pakistan), Delhi, Lucknow, Agra, Benares (now Varansi), and Calcutta (now Kolkata). Architectural studies of major monuments offer valuable historical records of what sites such as the Taj Mahal and the imperial mosque of the Mughal emperors in Delhi looked like before 20th-century restorations.
A sepia-toned photograph depicts a tiered stone tomb on a raised platform, angled within a chamber. Weathered stone surfaces are blanketed in dense geometric carvings and calligraphic bands. To the left, two recessed, pointed-archway-shaped niches are set into the wall. Bright light from the right rakes across the textures, casting sharp shadows into the relief motifs and across the floor, highlighting the interlinking patterns and the tomb's weathered, rectangular profile.

Delhi. Tomb of the Emperor Shums ooo deen Allomsh, Builder of the Kootub Minar in the Ruins of Old Delhi

1863–70

Samuel Bourne

(British, 1834–1912)
England

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