[Architectural element intended to top the Qutub Minar]

[Architectural element intended to top the Qutub Minar]

Photograph

Attributed to Dr. John Murray

Maker
English, 1809–1898

[Architectural element intended to top the Qutub Minar]

ca. 1856
Albumenized salted paper print
Image: 14 3/8 × 19 in. (36.5 × 48.2 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
Inscriptions Inscribed in ink on verso, TL: was to have been the top of the Kootub, \ but found they could not get it up, so \ took all the chips and blocks from the \ building and placed it on top.
Inscribed in ink on verso, BL: No. 10 \ [illegible] Intended top of the Kootub Minar \ Vol V
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BR: Boyer 14 1/4 x 19 Phillips Coll. - Calif. 2-1948
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