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Description: | Photograph from an album of 40 albumen prints by Edmund David Lyon. Lyon's 'Notes to Accompany a Series of Photographs Prepared to Illustrate the Ancient Architecture of Southern India' (Marion & Co., London, 1870), edited by James Fergusson, gives the following description: '- is a view of a female figure on the right...... In her right hand she bears the trident, the emblem of Shiva, and above her head rises a five-headed snake with a god seated in its shelter. The portico or colonnade in which these figures are situated, is a very fine one, and is used as an immense bazaar, in which articles of all sorts are exhibited for sale'. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Subjects: | Art Hindu Temples Temples Sacred Architecture Sculpture Leisure And The Arts Architecture | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Lyon, Edmund David | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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