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Collection Area Visual Arts Subject Nuns

1. Godwin Photo 14/1(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Godwin Photo 14/1(1)
Title:
The Street, Whitstable. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed on verso: '5562-4-8 / PRN / 27 / Day 4 p.57 / Whitstable: The Street / Day 4/Faversham'. Genre: Landscape Photography View along the strip of shingle that stretches out to sea; two nuns walk along the beach by some groynes and a woman (left) walks her dog walks towards t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1981
Extent:
1 item

2. Godwin Photo 14/1(64)

Reference (shelfmark):
Godwin Photo 14/1(64)
Title:
The Street, Whitstable. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed on verso: '5570-5-26 / RRN / 25 / Day 4 p.57 / Whitstable: The Street / 3 or 4* pdc / large if poss'. Genre: Landscape Photography Two nuns, with their backs to the viewer, walk along the strip of shingle beach. The protective cover shows the crop lines and reproduction ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1981
Extent:
1 item

3. Godwin Photo 31/2(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Godwin Photo 31/2(5)
Title:
[Two nuns and a girl, Highgate Ponds?] Photographer: Godwin, Fay
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Two nuns sit in the grass as a girl with a fishing rod walks by.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1970
Extent:
1 item

4. Mss Eur F191/332(1301)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F191/332(1301)
Title:
From Erode: Alleppey. In the Sacred Heart Mount Convent, where the nuns sang passion songs, there also were parishioners who danced margamkali wholeheartedly. Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View in the Sacred Heart Mount Convent, where the nuns sang passion songs, there also were parishioners who danced margamkali wholeheartedly.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1938
Extent:
1 item

5. Neg 1112/7(707)

Reference (shelfmark):
Neg 1112/7(707)
Title:
Village Leng-tu. Chahar Mongol woman, a nun. Many nuns wear this kind of hat. Holds a riding whip in her hand. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing portrait of an elderly woman, wearing a conical hat. Duplicate negative only, no print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1935
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 430/53(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(9)
Title:
Tibetan nuns [Tatsang]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of nuns at Tatsang. Another copy at Photo 1084/1 (8), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the caption reads: 'This was taken at the Nunnery of Ta-tsang, a most desolate spot, from which not a single habitation is t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Jul 1903
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1084, 1(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 1(8)
Title:
Group of Nuns [Ta-tsang]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Seated group of nuns: 'This was taken at the nunnery of Ta-tsang, a most desolate spot, from which not a single habitation is to be seen. Our visit was a red letter day to the women, as none of them had ever seen a white man before. The wigs are made ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1903-1904
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1167(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(1)
Title:
Young nuns studying religious texts at Pangmo Convent, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Showing two young nuns studying texts, while seated among coils of piping, with a group of nuns watching from the steps above: 'Young nuns studying religious texts at Pangmo Convent, a new monastery built with funds raised by an American Buddhist nun. The plastic piping now brings water to the n...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1993
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1167(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(2)
Title:
Tsering Drolma carrying a child outside the entrance to her mud house in Pangmo, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography 'The late Tsering Drolma carrying a child outside the entrance to her mud house in Pangmo. Women shave their heads when they become nuns or when their husbands die and they decide not to remarry. Like most nuns of her generation, Tsering lived within the family home,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1993
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1246/2(68)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1246/2(68)
Title:
[Sisters of Mercy (1859) by Henriette Browne]. Photographer(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
View of a painting that depicts a nun holding a sick child with another nun pouring liquid into a bowl on a table in front of her. The artist real name was Sophie de Bouteiller (1829-1901); French Orientalist Painter. Albumen print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item