Jaisalmer Fort
- Title:
- Jaisalmer Fort
- Collection:
- Beyond the Taj: Architectural Traditions and Landscape Experience in South Asia
- Photographer:
- MacDougall, Robert D. (Robert Duncan), 1940-1987
- Date:
- ca. 1125-1825
- Location:
- Jaisalmer (Rajasthan, India)
- Country:
- India
- ID Number:
- MCD_01302
- Call Number:
- B-Q5 Jais 1.2 Jais 5-5
- File Name:
- MCD_01302.jpg
- Style/Period:
- Bhatti Rajput Dynasty
- Work Type:
- fort
- Subject:
- towns
forts
hills - Image View Description:
- Ext.: fort with the later town built outside the fortifications
- Description:
- Built on a triangular hill known as trikuta. Surviving fort dates from the middle of the 16th C. Built mid 12th, late 16th-early 17th, and mid 18th-early 19th C., probably ca. 1156, 1577-1623, 1726-1820. Built by Jaisal.
- Notes:
- Image and original data maintained by the Cornell University Library. This digital collection is a result of a long-term collaboration between Professor Bonnie G. MacDougall, Department of Architecture and Margaret N. Webster, Director of the George W. & Adelaide Knight Visual Resources Facility in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning.
- Source:
- MacDougall, R. D.
MacDougall, R. D.
Files
Tillotson, Giles Henry Rupert
The Rajput Palaces: the Development of an Architectural Style, 1450-1750
New Haven: Yale University Press
1987
Fine Arts Library
NA1507.R35 T57 1987
Fass, Virginia
The Forts of India
London: Collins
1986
Fine Arts Library
NA497.I4 F24 1986#
Agarawala, Ram Avatar
History, Art and Architecture of Jaisalmer
Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan
1979
Annex
N7308.J34 A28 - Cite As:
- Bonnie and Robert MacDougall papers, #15-2-4397. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- This image is protected by copyright, and the copyright holder is Cornell University. It is licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Images in the Beyond the Taj collection were created between roughly 1960-1987, and were digitized by Cornell University Library from a variety of negatives, positives, and slides retained by the Estate of Bonnie MacDougall. Permission is required for any use that extends beyond what is authorized by the license, fair use, and/or other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Cornell welcomes additional information about the items in this collection, including any additional information regarding rights holders. Please contact rareref@cornell.edu with any such information or to request permission to use any images from this collection. For additional information about how you may use materials from Cornell University Library’s Digital Collections, review our Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio from Cornell University Library Collections (http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright).