Carved figure in Tinnevelly [Tirunelveli] Pagoda. Colossal figure of Pagadé
0000; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
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Print from an album of 41 albumen prints by Edmund David Lyon. Lyon's 'Notes to Accompany a Series of Photographs Prepared to Illustrate the Ancient Architecture of Southern India' (Marion & Co., London, 1870), edited by James Fergusson, explains: 'Immediately in front of the sanctuary, but with their backs towards it, stand four colossal figures, about twenty feet high, and each carved out of one block of hornblend stone, now so hard, that the natives declare, that to attempt to cut it, destroys all their chisels'. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David.
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