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Series Title: Photographs of Northern India

Agra. View of the Taj in Front of Nootkan (The Light of the World), Wife of the Emperor Akbar, View from the River

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 2024.5.37
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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 twentieth-century restorations.
A horizontally oriented sepia-toned photograph depicts the Taj Mahal centered in the distance. In the lower foreground, a man in a white turban stands on a stone ledge while another sits nearby. A long water channel, flanked by dark, slender cypress trees, recedes toward the mausoleum. The structure features a large central dome and four corner minarets, all framed by a soft, cloudy sky.

Agra. View of the Taj in Front of Nootkan (The Light of the World), Wife of the Emperor Akbar, View from the River

1863–70

Samuel Bourne

(British, 1834–1912)
England

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