Janus: Photographs of India

RCS/Y3022C-E/Y3022E contains:
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31	Waterfall at Peermund
32	Upper waterfall from the river bed [catalogue caption: 'Upper waterfall at Pykara from the river bed']
33	Toola mund, village and Todas
34	A succession of rapids, on the Pykara
35	The old moat and ramparts of Tanjore
36	The Great Stone Bull
37	The Great Pagoda
38	Carved stone temple near the Pagoda
39	The Inner Goparum (gateway)
40	River view near Tanjore
41	The rock of Trichinopoly from the east
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Photographs of India

Title	The Great Stone Bull
Reference	Y3022E/36
Creator	Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer
Covering Dates	1869

Content and context

322 x 191 mm. View of the monumental statue of the bull Nandi in the temple courtyard at Tanjore. Carved from a single stab of granite and measuring 16 feet long by 12 feet high, the image is enclosed beneath a flat roof supported by pillars and stands between the gateway into the courtyard

and the temple entrance itself. Bourne no. 2046.

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Asia

India

Thanjavur

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