Great Temple at Bobaneswar

Location

Country: India
City: New Delhi
Place: British High Commission

Architectural historian James Fergusson was born in Scotland and worked with a merchant firm in Calcutta before establishing an indigo factory in Bengal. He travelled widely in India during the 1830s and ‘40s, drawing architectural sites. He produced books and papers on Indian architecture, studied Islamic architecture in North Africa and the Middle East and wrote the first survey of architecture as an art form in English. His expertise was sought on projects, including the decoration of St Paul’s Cathedral, and in 1867 he curated the Indian court display at the Paris Universal Exhibition. He sat on the council of the Royal Geographical Society, was awarded an RIBA gold medal and was a vice president of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Places

India

Subjects

sculpture (as Subject), topography, tree, man, path, hut, temple (religious building)

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, tinted lithograph

Artist

James Fergusson (1808 - 1886)
Thomas Coleman Dibdin (1810 - 1893)

Title

Great Temple at Bobaneswar

Date

published 1848

Medium

Tinted lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Hugh Evelyn, January 1983

GAC number

16149