Masterpieces of Indian Art & Architecture

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Regional Strongholds and Port Cities

in Early Modern India:

Jaipur, Calcutta, and the influx of new artists

18th century Painted Map showing plan of Jaipur

Plan of JaipurEntrance Gateway

Palace Court with Administration Spaces (Currently City Palace Museum )

Hawa Mahal, Womens Quarters overlooking the wide avenues

Plan of Jaipur Generic fort form

Nine grid plan based on the Vastu Purusha Mandala

Krishna Image in the Govinda Deva Temple

Looking out from the Govinda Deva “Haveli Temple” into the garden court and Sawai Jai Singh II’s palace further beyond

Sawai Jai Singh II’s palace

View of the Bazaar, Photograph by Raja Deen Dayal, 1876Havelis, Mansions of the merchants, Jaipur

Jantar Mantar, Complex of Astronomical Instruments, c. 1725

Calcutta

Neoclassical Landscape of Calcutta, 19th century Anonymous

View of Court House Street, SE view of Gate of Government House View of Government House

Calcutta aquatint 14, 3. James Fraser, 1830s.

Government House, Calcutta

19th century photograph, Samuel Bourne

Government House, Calcutta. Charles Wyatt, 1797 Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire. James Paine, 1761, and Robert Adam (South face).