File:Atala mosque at Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured etching by Wellcome V0050447.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(3,320 × 2,262 pixels, file size: 2.94 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

William Hodges: A View of a Musjid, i.e. Tomb at Jionpoor   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
William Hodges  (1744–1797)  wikidata:Q730841 s:en:Author:William Hodges q:en:William Hodges
 
William Hodges
Description British explorer and painter
Date of birth/death 28 October 1744 Edit this at Wikidata 6 March 1797 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London Brixham (Devonshire)
Work location
London, Derby, Bengalen
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q730841
published by John Wells, London
Title
A View of a Musjid, i.e. Tomb at Jionpoor
Object type print
object_type QS:P31,Q11060274
Description

Atala mosque at Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1786.
This is plate 13 from William Hodges' book, Selected Views in India, Drawn on the Spot, in the Years 1780, 1781, 1782 and 1783, and Executed in Aquatinta. Printed and sold for the author (William Hodges) by J. Edwards British. Some of prints published by J. Wells, London British 1786–88.
In 1783 Hodges went to Jaunpur and sketched the mosques built by the kings of the Sharqi dynasty in the 15th century. This picture shows the entrance gateway to the Atala Mosque, which was built in 1408, making it the earliest of all the Sharqi buildings at Jaunpur. The arched entrance to the Atala mosque is over 22 metres high. Along with the arch of the Friday Mosque at Jaunpur, it is the highest in India.

Iconographic Collections
Keywords: William Hodges
Depicted place Atala Mosque
Date 1787
date QS:P571,+1787-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Aquatint with etching and engraving. Coloured.
Dimensions height: 33 cm (12.9 in); width: 48 cm (18.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,33U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,48U174728
Credit line

This file comes from Wellcome Images, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom. Refer to Wellcome blog post (archive).
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

References
Source/Photographer

https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/5d/a6/ea58bddf7877559ecc7be7c96784.jpg

Other versions
  • original wash drawing
    original wash drawing
  • cropped copy with alternative print colouring
    cropped copy with alternative print colouring

Licensing[edit]

This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current12:32, 8 November 2014Thumbnail for version as of 12:32, 8 November 20143,320 × 2,262 (2.94 MB)Fæ (talk | contribs)=={{int:filedesc}}== {{Artwork |artist = |author = |title = Atala mosque at Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured etching by |description = Atala mosque at Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured etching by William Hodge...

You cannot overwrite this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Atala_mosque_at_Jaunpur,_Uttar_Pradesh._Coloured_etching_by_Wellcome_V0050447.jpg&oldid=817665266"