Buildings in the fort at Agra by John Murray.
Murray was an amateur Scottish photographer who was posted as a surgeon and an officer in 1830 the Bengal Medical Service which was attached to the East India Company. Most of his best pictures were of architecture and he was probably the first person to the photograph the Taj from a variety of interesting angles.
Six hundred of his pictures are archived with the India Office of the British Library.
Photograph: Courtesy Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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