Photographs
Two-Part Panorama with View of the Narmada River at Omkareshwar
LandscapePhotograph
Details
- Author / creator
- Raja Deen Dayal (Indian, 1844–1905)
- Object type
- Photograph
- Date or period
- 1882
- Dimensions summary
- Mounted: 19 × 50.5 cm
- Photo process
- Albumen
- Studio or series
- Raja Deen Dayal
- Place of origin
- India
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Ashcombe City Council acquisitions budget, 2024
- Image rights
- Public domain (CC0)
About this object
This stunning panorama boldly places the sacred Narmada River in the middle and foreground. Raja Deen Dayal forces the viewer’s eye to journey between the left-hand island with Omkareshwar Temple, an important pilgrimage site that is one of 12 revered Jyotirlinga shrines of Shiva, and Mamleshwar, a shrine to Shiva on the river’s south bank, which is on the mainland.
Materials and technique
Albumen print
Signature and marks
Inscription at center left edge of left-side print: "1615"
