Illustrations of various styles of Indian architecture : a series of fifteen photographs of some of the most important buildings in India erected between B.C. 250 and A.D. 1830, with a lecture on the study of Indian architecture, read at a meeting of the Society of Arts, on 19th December, 1866
James Fergusson's 1869 photographic album, printed in London for use in British art schools, gathers fifteen photographs of major Indian buildings dating from about 250 BC to AD 1830, shown with a lecture on studying Indian architecture. The plates are sepia photographs of carved temple gateways, pillars, and ornamented walls, with the scans rotated sideways on the page; a designer could draw on their dense sculptural ornament, stone tracery, and repeated carved panels for pattern and surface reference.
