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Description: | Photograph from the Curzon Collection, of a building in the Ram Bag at Dig, Rajasthan, taken by the studio of Priyalall & Company in c.1900. The beautiful 18th-century garden palace of the Jats of Bharatpur at Dig was built by Badan Singh (ruled 1722-33) and his son Suraj Mal (ruled 1733-63). The palace consists of pavilions arranged around a formal garden filled with fountains which was laid out in the Persian-Mughal tradition of the char bagh and flanked by tanks or reservoirs. The Ram Bhavan is a pavilion on the north edge of the complex, and the Ram Bag may the garden adjacent to it. In the foreground of this view is a baradari or square, open, columned hall overlooking a pool. A second baradari forms a portico to the pavilion behind. The deep projecting cornice supported on carved brackets is a distinguishing feature of the palace architecture at Dig. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Priyalall and Company | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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