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1. Photo 20(28)

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Photo 20(28)
Title:
Devil dancers—Tongsa Jong [Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a group of costumed dancers and musicians gathered in a courtyard in the dzong at Tongsa. The photograph was also used in The National Geographic Magazine (Apr 1914, p. 439), with the following caption: 'A group of masked dancers—Tongsa-Jo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 20(40)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 20(40)
Title:
The Tongsa Penlop's medical attendant, a Lama from one of the Lhasa monasteries [Tongsa, Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait in the open air, striking an attitude with drum and blowing a pipe made from a bone. The photograph was also used in The National Geographic Magazine (Apr 1914, p. 448), with the following caption: 'An old lama, known as the Lhasa doctor. He was ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 88/1(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 88/1(15)
Title:
Great Bell, Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of the bell, with a Burmese man pointing to the inscribed surface.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 212/2(35)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 212/2(35)
Title:
Madura. The interior of the Tuncum. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography This view looks across the room, furnished in European style, and along a vista of cusped arches towards the window. At the right stands a European couple - presumably the judge of Madura and his wife - she seated at a spinet, he standing behind. The judge at Ma...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1867-1868
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1183(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1183(15)
Title:
[Gamelan orchestra, Java.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '46' in pencil on mount. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of a gamelan orchestra, seated with their instruments in front of a large wicker-walled, tile-roofed hut. A European man is seated on the verandah of the building in the right background.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1183(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1183(16)
Title:
[Gamelan orchestra, Java.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '50' in pencil on mount. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of a gamelan orchestra, seated with their instruments in front of a fenced-off plantation of bananas.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

7. Talbot Photo 1(139)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 1(139)
Title:
[Savoyard with Hurdy-gurdy.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full length studio portrait of a standing boy wearing a brimmed hat and knee-high spats; he holds a hurdy-gurdy across his body. This image has been published as plate 1 in 'The Hurdy Gurdy' by Susann and Samuel Palmer (David & Charles: Newton Abbot, 1980) and is...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1840s
Extent:
1 item

8. Talbot Photo 2(388)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 2(388)
Title:
Believed to be L to R. Caroline, Horatia, Lady Elizabeth. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed on verso: 'Believed to be L to R. Caroline, Horatia, Lady Elizabeth.' Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of three women; seated with book (Caroline Mount Edgcumbe), seated with guitar (Horatia Gaisford) and standing in the centre (Amelina Petit). Chemistry float-applie...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1840s
Extent:
1 item

9. Talbot Photo 2(484)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 2(484)
Title:
[Horatia Gaisford Playing the Harp.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed on verso: 'I. H.W.' [Intensified by Harold White]. Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length profile portrait of Talbot's half sister seated and playing the Erard harp; photograph taken outside, in front of a backdrop. Watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1842'. Intensified ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1 May 1842
Extent:
1 item

10. Talbot Photo 3(63)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 3(63)
Title:
[Amélina Petit playing a Guitar.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Inscribed in pencil on verso: '19 Oct/ 4[?]'. A calotype negative of a portrait of Amélina Petit, wearing a dark dress and a bonnet and playing a guitar. The number '6' is written in reverse in the top right corner. The date on the negative is indistinct and may read 1843. This negative is part...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
19 Oct 1842
Extent:
1 item