3-028-731 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

..Indian Architecture: Palace of the Sultana at Futtehpore Sikree, (Mohammedan, 16th Century), 1870. Engraving of a photograph by Mr. Bourne. 'We now give an example of the Mohammedan decorated architecture of the sixteenth century - the Palace of the Sultana, at Futtehpore Sikree; in which the ornamentation is of a more severe and geometrical character, eschewing the figures of men and animals, while the carving is more minute in detail than that of the earlier Indian buildings'. From "Illustrated London News, 1870.