Title(s)

Copy of a decorated window of the Sidi Saiyyed Ni Jaali Mosque in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1079-5

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘V.’
• inscription: ‘In MR. FOREST'S POSSESSION, NEW YORK.’
• title: ‘COPY OF THE SECOND BHUDDER WINDOW’

Artist

• photographer: anonymous
• maker: Heliotype Printing Company (mentioned on object)

Place

photographer: Ahmedabad (stad)
maker: Boston (Massachusetts)

Dating

c. 1875 - in or before 1885

Material

• paper

Technique

photoaquatint

Measurements

height 160 mm × width 233 mm

What

• window
• ornament derived from plant forms

Where

• Ahmedabad (stad)

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Indian domestic architecture (RP-F-2001-7-1079)