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Mahmud Gawan Madrasa, Bidar

c. 1890

Raja Deen Dayal

(Indian, 1844–1905)
Culture
India
Medium
albumen print
Measurements
Paper: 26 x 19.7 cm (10 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.); Mounted: 32.7 x 25.5 cm (12 7/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2024.81
Public Domain
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Built in 1472 as an Islamic theological college, in 1656 gunpowder stored in it ignited and gutted the building.

Description

The architectural decoration on the tower echoes patterns on Bidri ware (see 2020.206), ornamented metallic vessels cast from condensed vapors of zinc in a technique native to that city. This image is notable for the precision and poetry with which the people are posed. Most gaze at the camera, probably instructed to do so by Deen Dayal; this is rarely the case in images by foreign photographers.
A vertically oriented black-and-white photograph depicts the weathered exterior of the Madrasa of Mahmud Gawan. A three-story facade with arched openings stands on the left. Centered, a tall, patterned minaret rises beside a shorter domed tower on the right. In the foreground, a man with a walking stick stands near another leading a pack animal. Smaller figures cluster at the structure's base beneath a pale, flat sky.

Mahmud Gawan Madrasa, Bidar

c. 1890

Raja Deen Dayal

(Indian, 1844–1905)
India

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