Ink and pencil drawings of the elevations of the recess at the left end of the veranda of Cave No. 10, as well as an example of a pillar from Cave No. 78. Notes indicate that details were added to the drawings on the 17th of May 1862. Scale is 2 ft. to an inch.
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Pencil and ink drawings of the two large exterior columns, or rock cut laths, which flank the entrance into Cave No. 3. The drawings are made after photographs taken by Mr. Johnson. Scale is 4 ft. to an inch.
West Arthur Anderson EngineerInk and pencil drawings of elevations of the exteriors of Cave No. 56, No. 61 and No. 60. Scale is 5 ft. to an inch.
West Clement EngineerThree extracts taken from earlier sources regarding the Salsette Caves. First are extracts translated from a French Translation of Carsten Niebuhr's 1780 Voyage en Arabic (Arabian Voyage). The second are extracts from a 1847 work by Dr. J Bird. Third, extracts from J. B. 'Selby's' (Seely?) 1825 Wonders of Ellora. And finally, Notes on Kanheri from James Fergusson's 1845 Rock Cut Temples.
These are pages 3 to 5 on the folder list.
Ink drawings of the frieze above the benched cress in the left changer of the courtyard of Cave No. 75 and of a partial frontal elevation of Cave No. 76, including a brief note on the state of preservation of ornamentation at time of documentation.
West Arthur Anderson EngineerThree small ink and pencil drawings of gated windows in from Cave No. 52. Scale is half an inch to a foot.
West Henry d 1858 EngineerUnfinished half front elevation of Cave No. 68 in pencil. Scale is 2 ft. to an inch.
West Arthur Anderson EngineerA handwritten draft written by Edward William West for an article published in the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1860. Included are also three pages of draft prints of the inscriptions which were included in the publication.
This is number 8 on the folder list.
West Edward William 1824-1905A smaller piece of card and paper pasted onto a sheet of folscap paper. The first is an impression of what is believed to be a coin found in front of Cave No. 7 in November 1852, with a brief explanatory note dated January 1853. The second is a letter dated to approximately June 1853 sent from Henry West to a Dr. Wilson containing a copy short inscription from Kanheri.
The addressee is most likely John Wilson, once President of the Bombay Asiatic Society, Bombay Cave Temple Commission and lobbyist for the Archaeological Survey of India. This is indicated to on the folder list; 'Dr. J. Wilson'.
West Henry EngineerPencil drawing of four sculpted figures on the right side of main enterance to Cave No. 3. The drawing is traced from a photograph. Scale is roughly one inch to a foot.
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