Dear collective wisdom,
Like Goldilocks, my South Asian librarian colleague and I are looking for a print, drawing, or photograph of Nur Jahan's RamBagh (Agra, India) for a faculty member who would like to put it on a book
cover. Apparently, many of the images (mostly photographs) we have found have been used over and over and the faculty member would like something a little more unique. Any ideas, beyond the list below, where we might look?
What we’ve done so far:
· Approx. 17 images on Artstor
· Images on Flickr Creative Commons: https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=%22Ram%20Bagh%20agra%22
· South Asia curator at V&A consulted
· British Library’s Asia, Pacific & Africa collections:
· The Kern Collection. A search for “Agra” brought up 153 images.https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/
· “Beyond the Taj” collection from Cornell. See this image under “Akbari Mahal.”
Sometimes “Ram Bagh” is also spelled as one word “Rambagh.” Searching for “Agra” and then sifting through the images than by searching for the name of the monument, is helpful.
Thanks, as always.
Kim
Kim Collins
Robert W Woodruff Library, Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30307