- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Alexander Shortt
- Provenance
- Presented by Lieutenant-Colonel A. G. Shortt in 1947. Taken by his father Major-General Alexander Young Shortt when he was Political Resident (representative of the British Government) in the native state of Palanpur, India, about 1860-70.
- Physical material
- Paper
- Dimensions
- Height: 273mm Width: 215mm
- Inventory No
- 75792
- Accession Number
- 1947-5
Description
Albumen print (from a waxed paper negative) of a Hindu temple in the [?]Palanpore region of India. Vertical format. Tear at top. Negative is 94123. One of two prints and three waxed paper negatives, together with a manuscript description of the taking of the photographs (11957). It shows the taller narrow end of the temple, with elaborate carved figures etc., which appear in surprisingly good detail in both negative and print.
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