Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00012713Agra. View of the Taj in Front of Nootkan (The Light of the World), Wife of the Emperor Akbar, View from the River
About the Artwork
The 50 images in this album, all taken in the 1860s, move from the hill towns of the Himalayas down to cities including Lahore (now in Pakistan), Delhi, Lucknow, Agra, Benares (now Varansi), and Calcutta (now Kolkata). Architectural studies of major monuments offer valuable historical records of what sites such as the Taj Mahal and the imperial mosque of the Mughal emperors in Delhi looked like before twentieth-century restorations.
Provenance
?–2024: (Photovintagefrance, Lorraine, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 2024–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Samuel Bourne (British, 1834–1912)
- Date
- 1863–70
- Medium
- albumen print
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Accession no.
- 2024.5.37
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