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Description: | Photograph of the Kanch Mahal at Sikandra in Uttar Pradesh, taken by Edmund William Smith in 1893-4, from the Archaeological Survey of India. The Kanch Mahal, a 17th century domestic building, is located east of Mughal Emperor Akbar's (r.1556-1605) tomb at Sikandra. It is believed to have been occupied by Emperor Jahangir's (r.1605-27) wife, Jodh Bai.
Smith wrote in Moghul Colour Decoration of Agra, 1901, "From an examination of the building it would appear that only the north façade was completed. The remaining fronts are built in plain brickwork in very thin courses... The stone veneering on the north façade is continued round and stops short on the north-east and north-west corners of the building...The principal façade faces north, and not as one would expect, towards the main road leading to Agra...In the centre of the façade is an exceptionally fine porch...On the sides of the porch are archways which covered deep recesses built on the top of the plinth which was pulled down years ago to make a way into the ground floor rooms." | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Smith, Edmund William | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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