Cleveland Museum of Art
Mahmud Gawan Madrasa, Bidar
Raja Deen Dayal
- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- albumen print
- Culture
- India
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The architectural decoration on the tower echoes patterns on Bidri ware (see 2020.206), ornamented metallic vessels cast from condensed vapors of zinc in a technique native to that city. This image is notable for the precision and poetry with which the people are posed. Most gaze at the camera, probably instructed to do so by Deen Dayal; this is rarely the case in images by foreign photographers. Built in 1472 as an Islamic theological college, in 1656 gunpowder stored in it ignited and gutted the building.
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