Mahmud Gawan Madrasa, Bidar
c. 1890
- Medium
- albumen print
- Dimensions
- 26 × 19.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-196539
The architectural decoration on the tower echoes patterns on Bidri ware (see CMA 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.
Provenance
Wade Fund, 2024.81
Registry history
- c. 1890 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — photographs
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