Mahmud Gawan Madrasa, Bidar

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Mahmud Gawan Madrasa, Bidar

Raja Deen DayalLinkedCulture matchlcp-900fe823d6cd

Date
c. 1890
Medium
albumen print
Culture
India
Department
Photography
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
680763

The architectural decoration on the tower echoes patterns on Bidri ware (see CMA 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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Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Provenance
Walter Clode, United Kingdom | ?–2024: (Prahlad Bubbar Ltd., London, England, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) | September 9, 2024–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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