Group of moulders at work at the Kutb [Delhi]

Posed group of Indian craftsmen making plaster of Paris moulds of stonework. The figures are grouped in front of the Hindu columns of the Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque at the Qutb. The European figure in the centre is presumably Henry Hardy Cole.

Also, Fig. 2 Making casts of columns at the Qutbi Mosque, c. 1870 (after Cole, 1872), from Flood, Finbarr Barry. "Signs of Violence: Colonial Ethnographies and Indo-Islamic Monuments." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 5 (2004): 20-51. DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2004.11432742

British Library/Charles Shepherd bl.uk

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