The sandal wood gates of Somnauth
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@ The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. The New York Public Library
Hart, Lockyer Willis
Description
Illustrated t.p.In portfolio.[from the description of plates] "The door, said to be made of sandal wood, and to be that brought by Mahmood from the Hindoo Temple of Somnath in Kattywar, when he sacked and desecrated that shrine, is in pannels, carved and well joined.
1843