"The Gol Goomuz. General View": the tomb of Muhammad Adil Shah at Bijapur (Taylor and Fergusson, Architecture at Beejapoor, 1866, pl. LX)

Sepia photograph of a massive cubical tomb with a great hemispherical dome and seven-storeyed octagonal towers at the corners, standing on a bare plain.

Type: Historic photograph
Creator: Philip Meadows Taylor and James Fergusson (John Murray, London); photographer not named on the plate
Date: 1866
Licence: Public domain
From: Philip Meadows Taylor and James Fergusson, Architecture at Beejapoor, an Ancient Mahometan Capital in the Bombay Presidency (opens in a new tab), 1866, pl. LX (PDF p. 161)
Original: archive.org (opens in a new tab)
Appears in: Adil Shahis of Bijapur, Muhammad Adil Shah, Bijapur (Vijayapura), Temples & architecture