Two-Part Panorama with View of the Narmada River at Omkareshwar (1882): Art, History and Details

Two-Part Panorama with View of the Narmada River at Omkareshwar (1882) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Raja Deen Dayal (Indian, 1844–1905).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This stunning panorama boldly places the sacred Narmada River in the middle and foreground. Raja Deen Dayal forces the viewer’s eye to journey between the left-hand island with Omkareshwar Temple, an important pilgrimage site that is one of 12 revered Jyotirlinga shrines of Shiva, and Mamleshwar, a shrine to Shiva on the river’s south bank, which is on the mainland.

Object facts

• Title: Two-Part Panorama with View of the Narmada River at Omkareshwar
• Date: 1882
• Creator attribution: Raja Deen Dayal (Indian, 1844–1905)
• Culture: India
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: albumen print
• Dimensions: Mounted: 19 x 50.5 cm (7 1/2 x 19 7/8 in.)
• Collection: PH - Misc. 19th Century
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 2024.82

A detail from the museum

The temple on the left is believed to one of 12 places—Jyotirlinga shrines—where the Hindu god Shiva appeared as a bright column of light.

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

View the collection record

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