Mahavellipore, near Madras. Another view of the cracked monolith [Bhima Ratha]
0000; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
Resumo
Another copy of this print at Photo 1000 (3090). 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, gives the following description of this photograph: 442 - is another view of the largest Monolith taken on the other, or [south-]west side, and shows two great fragments of the rock which have fallen away, probably at the same time at which it was cracked; one is from the angle, the other from the centre. It is also interesting, as showing what would have been the form of a five or seven-light window, just under the roof, had it been constructed in the original wood from which it is copied. Compared with the plain semicircular openings of the Western caves, it shows the great progress that had been made in adapting the wooden style to stone architecture. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David.
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