Gwalior. Urwai
Medium
Photochrom
Dimensions
image: 20.6 × 26.6 cm · paper: 20.6 × 26.6 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase from the Karl B. Goldfield Trust
Accession Number
2018.218
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
The sculptures were carved into the steep sides of the cliffs below Gwalior’s fort in the mid-1400s, but the faces were re-cut after the images were defaced in 1527. The tiny visitors depicted on the road emphasize their monumental scale. The colors in this image are imagined, added later in the studio in a lithographic printing process that produces colorized ink-on-paper prints from black-and-white photographic negatives.