Illustrations of buildings near Muttra and Agra : showing the mixed Hindu-Mahomedan style of upper India / Prepared at the India Museum under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council, from photographs, plans, and drawings taken by order of the Government of India by Henry Hardy Cole.

Henry Hardy Cole 1843-1916

RA Collection: Book

Record number

12/4526

Author

Henry Hardy Cole, 1843-1916

Imprint

London :: India Office ; sold by Wm. H. Allen and Co., publishers to the India Office,, 1873.

Physical Description

116 p., [12] photo-litho. pl. : 42 ill. (mounted photographs) 35 cm. (4°).

Contents

Contents: Temple at Bindrabund.--Temple at Goverdhun.--Rajah of Bhurtpore's palace at Deeg.--Palaces at Futtehpore Sikree.

Provenance

Presented by the Secretary of State for India in 1878.

Binding Note

19th-century quarter morocco, green pebble-grained cloth, blind-stamped arabesque decoration repeated in all corners, centre of upper cover with title blocked in gilt between crown and lotus: 'ARCHÆOLOGICAL / SURVEY / OF / INDIA. / BUILDINGS IN THE / NEIGHBOURHOOD / OF AGRA' ; spine blocked vertically in gilt between elephants in profile: 'ARCHÆOLOGICAL SURVEY, INDIA. / MUTTRA & AGRA.'; top-edge gilt; brick-red endpapers.

Subject

Islamic architecture, India, Uttar Pradesh.
Hindu architecture, India, Uttar Pradesh.
Architecture, India, Uttar Pradesh.

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