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John Murray
The Jama Masjid, Agra
1853-1858
Salted paper print
37.2 x 46.7 cm (image)
The Royal Collection
RCIN 2701443
LL/90977
Photograph of the Jama Masjid mosque in Agra taken from the side. Two of the mosque's onion-shaped domes are visible, both decorated with zigzag lines of different coloured stone. The mosque also has chhatris, elevated dome-shaped pavilions, and two small minarets. In the foreground there is a courtyard where there are several traders with carts.
This is one of a series of photographs of Agra by Dr John Murray which were published in a volume with accompanying captions by J Middleton. Murray was an East India Company doctor who used waxed-paper negatives to produce photographs of the Mughal architecture of Agra and the surrounding area.
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