Entrance gate and Gopuram of the Meenakshi temple at Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, Nicholas & Co. (attributed to), 1878

Title(s)

Entrance gate and Gopuram of the Meenakshi temple at Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-F02515

Inscriptions / marks

• title: ‘Madura/ Great Gopuram and Temple Entrance’
• number: ‘1’

Artist

• Nicholas & Co. (attributed to)

Place

Madura

Dating

1878

Material

• paper
• cardboard

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 277 mm × width 228 mm
height 308 mm × width 243 mm

What

• temple, shrine ~ Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism

Where

• Minakshitempel

Acquisition

transfer 1994

Copyright

Public domain

• The Nicholas Brothers & A.T.W. Penn : photographers of South India 1855-1885, Christopher Penn, pl. 19