The Taj Mahal, Agra

[Original] The Taj Mahal - A dream of Oriental spendour, fashioned as the last resting place for the "Exalted One of the Palace," the wife of Shah Jehan. "If there is heaven on earth it is this, it is this." [end]

From the very first Tuck's Agra series, the classic Taj view that had already been finely woven into global consciousness through albumen photography since the 1860s.