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John Murray
[The Taj Mahal from the Gateway]
1864, January - March
Albumen silver prints (3), from waxed paper negatives
35 x 127 cm (13 3/4 x 50 ins) overall
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 2005, Accession Number:2005.100.315a–c
LL/78012
Curatorial description (Accessed: 14 October 2017)
Of all the photographs Murray made of the Taj, the most impressive are his triptych panoramas, taken from the roof of the entrance gate and looking down and across the formal gardens to the mausoleum beyond. Perched high above the heavily wooded gardens, the pale building appears almost translucent in the early morning sunlight. So often described as a tribute to feminine beauty, the monument itself becomes an architectural odalisque reclining against dark silky billows.
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