Title(s)

Exterior of the minaret of the Muhafiz Khan Mosque at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-439-8

Inscriptions / marks

• caption: ‘MOHÁFIZ KHAN'S MOSQUE, AHMEDABAD. (Sixteenth Century.)/ From a Photograph by Col. Biggs, R. A.’

Artist

• Thomas Biggs (mentioned on object)
• print maker: anonymous

Place

Ahmedabad

Dating

c. 1864 - in or before 1869

Material

• paper

Technique

Woodburytype

Measurements

height 141 mm × width 103 mm

What

• façade (of house or building)
• temple, shrine ~ Islam, Mohammedanism
• sculpture (+ relief ~ sculpture)

Where

• Muhafiz Khan-moskee

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

• Illustrations of various styles of Indian architecture (RP-F-2001-7-439)