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Description: | Photograph of a gate way in the palace at Jaipur in Rajasthan, taken by Lala Deen Dayal in the 1890s, from the Curzon Collection: 'Views of places proposed to be visited by Their Excellencies Lord & Lady Curzon during Autumn Tour 1902'. Lord Curzon served as Viceroy of India between 1899 and 1905. Jaipur was founded in 1727 as a new state capital by Maharaja Jai Singh (r.1699-1743), head of the Kachwaha Rajputs. It was built on the site of a royal hunting lodge and garden on a plain ringed by a range of hills five miles south of Amber, the previous state capital. The City Palace is surrounded by gardens and courtyards enclosed by a high wall in the centre of the city, and dates from 1727 with later additions. Each doorway and gateway is richly decorated. This is a view of an arched entrance gateway leading to the Chandra Mahal, the main block and earliest part of the city palace, covered with floral, geometric and figurative designs. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Deen Dayal, Lala (1844-1905) | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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