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Benares; "Gyan Bapee", or Well of Knowledge

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Samuel Bourne

Photographer · 1834–1912

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Date: about 1868
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: English
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

View of the Gyanvapi Well inside the mosque of the same name in Varanasi. Three ornately carved pillars stand in the foreground, in front of a carved statue beneath a recessed arch. A second, ornately decorated statue sits between two of the pillars, and a bell hangs from one of the pillars' capitals above it.

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