Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00012913Mahmud Gawan Madrasa, Bidar
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
Inscription lower left: "5435"; inscription along left edge of support: "Bidar Deccan the Madrassa Nov. ’97"
Provenance
Walter Clode, United Kingdom ?–2024: (Prahlad Bubbar Ltd., London, England, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) September 9, 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
- Raja Deen Dayal (Indian, 1844–1905)
- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- albumen print
- Dimensions
- Paper: 26 x 19.7 cm (10 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.); Mounted: 32.7 x 25.5 cm (12 7/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Accession no.
- 2024.81
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