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Surat
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1355 · Item · No date
Part of India: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

'A Prospect of the Castle of Surat, a great City of Indostan, commonly called the Mogul Empire in India.'
'Engraved for Millar's New Complete & Universal System of Geography'
'Goldar sculp.'

From George Henry Millar, 'The new and universal system of geography [ ]' (London: Hogg, 1783) (Sitwell, 'Sepcial Geography', pp. 380-382).

Tanjore (Thanjavur)
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1357 · Item · 1905
Part of India: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

'Tanjore District Tanjore Town Topographical Map'
'Photo-Print Survey Office, Madras, 1905'

Anon.

Scale: 10 inches to 1 mile

'Tanjore Town Map' labelled in top right margin.

Some areas marked with crayon.

GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1362 · Item · 1915
Part of India: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

Two planning proposals for Ward No. 2 at Trichinopoly, mounted on one sheet.

  • 'Trichinopoly Town Sketch B showing the dry & wet lands extension in Tennur Ward No. 2.'; 'Reg: No. 1585'; 41.5 x 33.5 cm
  • 'Trichinopoly Town revised plan of the dry & wet lands in Tennur extensions Ward No. 2 (as per new instructions)'; 'Reg: No. 1584'; 38.2 x 33.4 cm

'Helio-Zinco, Survey Office, Madras. 1915'

Anon.

Scale: 3/5 inches to 100 feet

Both plans show tracings of former binding in left margin.

Ujjain
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1370 · Item · 1912
Part of India: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

'Ujjain City Plan of Proposed Improvements'
'Lanchester & Rickards: Arch[itect]s [...] 1912'

Scale: 1 inch to 400 feet

'89' endorsed on the reverse in manuscript in pencil top left corner.

'Cities Exhibition, No. 89 [lent by] H. V. Lanchester'

Lanchester, Henry Vaughan, 1863-1953, architect and town planner
Agra
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1163 · Item · No date
Part of India: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

'A view of Agra taken from the South West.'
'Engraved by J. Walker, from a picture Painted by W. Hodges, R.A. in the collection of Warren Hastings Esq[ui]r[e]' title pasted on backing underneath image.

By James Walker after William Hodges, 1744-1793, English painter and engraver, lived in India, 1778-1784, where he worked for Warren Hastings (general governor).

Walker, James, 1748-1808, engraver
Agra, Tomb of Itmad-ud-Daula
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1170 · Item · No date
Part of India: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

Three photographs of exterior and interior of the Tomb of Itmad-ud-Daula, mounted on one sheet.
Anon.

  • Entrance facade; 25.2 x 20.3 cm on 27.5 x 22.4 cm backing
  • Detail of a facade with carved windows and inlay work; 25.3 x 20.4 cm on 27.3 x 22.4 cm backing
  • Interior with inlay work; 25.3 x 20.3 cm on 27.3 x 22.5 cm backing
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1171/2 · Piece
Part of India: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.
  • View of the garden at the Taj Mahal; 21.7 x 15.6 cm on 23.8 x 17.7 cm backing
  • View of the Taj Mahal; 20.3 x 25.2 cm on 22.4 x 27.4 cm backing
  • View of the Taj Mahal from the adjacent river bank; 20.8 x 15.3 cm on 22.9 x 17.3 cm backing
  • View of the Taj Mahal from garden; 24.7 x 18.6 cm on 26.8 x 20.5 cm backing
  • 'Interior Mosque of Agra Taj N.16'; 25.3 x 20.3 cm on 27.3 x 22.3 cm backing
  • 'Agra Taj riverside N.11'; 24.9 x 18.4 cm on 27.1 x 20.5 cm backing
Agra
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1173 · Item · 1914
Part of India: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

'Types of Kos Minars'
'Gordon Sanderson Superintendent Muhammadin & British Monuments Northern [Gate] 17/4/1914'
'Zinco., August, 1914 No 210 8-4'

Print of a drawing showing types of Kos Minars, mainly on roads near Agra.

Gordon Sanderson.

'Plate 44' from an unidentified publication.