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Amber; Gateway in the Palace leading to the Kanch Mahal
Charles Shepherd, Samuel BourneDecember 1872–March 1873
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
View of a courtyard in the Amber or Amer Fort, a hillside fortified complex. The view looks toward the Ganesh Pol, an ornately decorated gateway with window screens and pointed arches. Three native men can be seen sitting around the courtyard, while a fourth man sits closer to the gateway's main arch.
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- Title: Amber; Gateway in the Palace leading to the Kanch Mahal
- Creator: Colin Murray, Bourne & Shepherd
- Date Created: December 1872–March 1873
- Location Created: Amer, Jeypore, Rajasthan, India; Amer, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
- Physical Dimensions: 23.3 × 28.3 cm (9 3/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
- Type: Print
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Albumen silver print
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 84.XO.889.3.13
- Culture: British
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Creator Display Name: Colin Murray (British, active India about 1874) Bourne & Shepherd (English, founded 1863, dissolved 2016)
- Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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