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INDIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE
[H.H. COLE.] Preservation of National Monuments in India. Published by order of the Governor General in Council for the office of Curator of Ancient Monuments in India. [Paris: Lemercier & Co., 1884-1885]. 9 parts only (of 10?), 2° (435 x 312mm). 67 plates only (of 74), comprising 32 heliogravures after photographs by G.W. Lawrie, Bourne and Shepherd, O.S. Baudesson, Din-Dyal and others, 19 chromolithographs after Nand Singh, Golam Alli, Abdul Aziz and others, and 16 black-and- white plans and diagrams. (Coloured pencil mark on one plate margin, browning and soiling to plate edges, tissue guards torn away, some damp-staining affecting most plates.) Original boards, printed in red and black (worn, with some pencil scribblings on boards, endpapers torn). Provenance: 'Forwarded with the compliments of the Secretary to the Government of India, Revenue and Agricultural Department ... W.R. Lawrence, Under-Secretary to the Govt. of India' (presentation slips pasted on upper pastedowns of 2 parts, presumably presented to) -- School of Industrial Art, Madras (ink stamps).
AN ILLUSTRATED RECORD OF THE ARCHITECTURAL MONUMENTS AND ARTISTIC STYLES IN INDIA, the nine parts covering Delhi, Meywar, Agra and Gwalior, Buildings in the Punjab, the Temples at Trichinopoly, the Great Temple to Siva and his Consort at Madura, the Tomb of Jahangir at Shahdara near Lahore, the Great Buddhist Tope at Sanchi, and the Golden Temple at Amritsar, Punjab. Major H.H. Cole of the Royal Engineers was appointed as Curator of Ancient Monuments in India from 1881-83 to assist the government in all matters related to the conservation of monuments. The Archaeological Survey had begun in 1861 and, after a brief hiatus in the late 1860s, was revived under the Director Generalship of Alexander Cunningham in 1870. The Survey Department was tasked with undertaking 'a complete search over the whole country, and a systematic record and description of all architectural and other remains that are either remarkable for their antiquity, or their beauty or their historical interest'. Cole's many reports on the monuments of Bombay, Madras, Rajputana, Hyderabad, Panjab and the Northwestern Provinces formed part of this growing interest in Indian art which had begun increasingly to influence English design, not least William Morris, theorist of the Arts and Craft movement. Sold as a serial, not subject to return. (9)
[H.H. COLE.] Preservation of National Monuments in India. Published by order of the Governor General in Council for the office of Curator of Ancient Monuments in India. [Paris: Lemercier & Co., 1884-1885]. 9 parts only (of 10?), 2° (435 x 312mm). 67 plates only (of 74), comprising 32 heliogravures after photographs by G.W. Lawrie, Bourne and Shepherd, O.S. Baudesson, Din-Dyal and others, 19 chromolithographs after Nand Singh, Golam Alli, Abdul Aziz and others, and 16 black-and- white plans and diagrams. (Coloured pencil mark on one plate margin, browning and soiling to plate edges, tissue guards torn away, some damp-staining affecting most plates.) Original boards, printed in red and black (worn, with some pencil scribblings on boards, endpapers torn). Provenance: 'Forwarded with the compliments of the Secretary to the Government of India, Revenue and Agricultural Department ... W.R. Lawrence, Under-Secretary to the Govt. of India' (presentation slips pasted on upper pastedowns of 2 parts, presumably presented to) -- School of Industrial Art, Madras (ink stamps).
AN ILLUSTRATED RECORD OF THE ARCHITECTURAL MONUMENTS AND ARTISTIC STYLES IN INDIA, the nine parts covering Delhi, Meywar, Agra and Gwalior, Buildings in the Punjab, the Temples at Trichinopoly, the Great Temple to Siva and his Consort at Madura, the Tomb of Jahangir at Shahdara near Lahore, the Great Buddhist Tope at Sanchi, and the Golden Temple at Amritsar, Punjab. Major H.H. Cole of the Royal Engineers was appointed as Curator of Ancient Monuments in India from 1881-83 to assist the government in all matters related to the conservation of monuments. The Archaeological Survey had begun in 1861 and, after a brief hiatus in the late 1860s, was revived under the Director Generalship of Alexander Cunningham in 1870. The Survey Department was tasked with undertaking 'a complete search over the whole country, and a systematic record and description of all architectural and other remains that are either remarkable for their antiquity, or their beauty or their historical interest'. Cole's many reports on the monuments of Bombay, Madras, Rajputana, Hyderabad, Panjab and the Northwestern Provinces formed part of this growing interest in Indian art which had begun increasingly to influence English design, not least William Morris, theorist of the Arts and Craft movement. Sold as a serial, not subject to return. (9)
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