Diwani-Kas, Faten Pur Sikri (1994 India)
Artist
Jerry West
(born 1933 Santa Fe, New Mexico; lives Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Artist
Meridel Rubenstein
(born 1948 Detroit, Michigan; lives Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Date1994
Mediummixed media, tin, photograph, copper, glass
Dimensions6 3/4 × 8 1/4 × 1/4 in. (17.1 × 21 × 0.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Ray Graham
Object numberPC2020.8.55
DescriptionA tinwork frame with a central lobe along the top and wings on the left and right sides. The center of the frame is made from copper and glass. It houses a black-and-white photograph of a carved red sandstone pillar with a massive expanding capital supporting a circular stone platform and stone bridges. The pillar is located in the historical Diwan-i-Khas, or Hall of Private Audiences, on the grounds of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan's Red Fort (b. 1638) in Old Delhi, India.On View
Not on view
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