album
- Museum number
- 1950,0722,0.1.3
- Title
- Object: Ajanta Expedition Government Resolutions
- Description
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An old file cover in two pieces (back and front) held together by a shoelace and covered in marbled paper with leather corners and spine, containing a quantity of notes and official printed documents (mostly from the Govt of Bombay) related to the work of John Griffiths between 1872 and 1895 on copying the frescos at Ajanta.
- Production date
- 1872-1885
- Dimensions
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Height: 35.70 centimetres
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Width: 23.20 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1943 or 1950
- Acquisition notes
- Probably associated with the gift of J Griffiths' diaries of his work at Ajanta (see 1950.7-22.01 (1-2). This collection of papers in not mentioned in either the draft or the official registers of the period. It is in every respect so integral to the record of Griffiths' work at Ajanta that its source can only have been that of the diary notebooks with which it is associated here.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1950,0722,0.1.3
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 27.d.22 (Dept of OA library shelf list)