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Collection Area Visual Arts Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 977

1. Photo 977

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 977
Title:
Journal of a tour through Spiti, to the frontier of Chinese Thibet, with photographic illustrations. Photographer(s): Egerton, Philip Henry
Scope & Content:
Imprint: London: Cundall, Downes, and Company, 168, New Bond Street. 1864. Folio, quarter-bound in leather and red buckram (modern rebinding, 1967), measuring 383 x 287 mm; pp. 68, containing 37 prints (wanting prints 17-22), laid down one to a page (apart from prints 9-10, 31-32, two to a pag...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863
Extent:
37 items

2. Photo 977(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 977(1)
Title:
Temple of Bhawun [Devi Vajresri Temple, Kangra]. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking down the sloping street towards the temple with its gilded copper cupola. Subjects = Egerton, P.H., 'Journal of tour through Spiti...' (1864); Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Hindu); temples
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 977(1a)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 977(1a)
Title:
Frontispiece. - Kangra Fort. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards the Rajput fort standing on the cliffs overlooking the Banganga River. Subjects = Egerton, P.H., 'Journal of tour through Spiti...' (1864); forts Location = Banganga (river); Himachal Pradesh; India; Kangra
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 977(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 977(2)
Title:
Tuhseeldar's Cutcherry [Kangra]. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Official seated on carpet with hookah, surrounded by attendants: 'From Bhawun the view across the rice producing valley to the snow-clad Himalayas above Dhurmsala is very beautiful. A native subcollector or Tuhseeldar of revenue holds a Small Cause Court here.' (Eger...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 977(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 977(3)
Title:
Dhurmsala. - Lower view. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography General view looking down onto the ridge. Subjects = Egerton, P.H., 'Journal of tour through Spiti...' (1864); hill stations
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 977(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 977(4)
Title:
Goorkha soldiers and family [Dharmsala]. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Gurkha soldier, posed with his family in front of a thatched hut: 'A Goorkha regiment is stationed in the lines below. These Goorkhas, who fought so well in the rebellion of 1857, are residents of Nepaul originally, but most of them have their families with the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 977(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 977(5)
Title:
Dhurmsala. - Upper view. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the upper part of the hill station, with bungalows dotted over the hillside. Subjects = Egerton, P.H., 'Journal of tour through Spiti...' (1864); hill stations
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 977(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 977(6)
Title:
Dhurmsala Church [St John-in-the-Wilderness]. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View from the hillside behind, looking down onto the church, with wooded hills beyond and mountains in the distance. Subjects = British colonial architecture; churches; Egerton, P.H., 'Journal of tour through Spiti...' (1864); European architecture in India; hill ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 977(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 977(7)
Title:
Temple at Nugger. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the temple tower, with wooden superstructure. 'In the evening I went on to Nugger, fifteen miles further up the valley, and some 1,500 feet above the river...The temples of Koolloo have a curious kind of wooden roof thrown over the stone structur...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 977(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 977(8)
Title:
Koolloo man and wife. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Three-quarter length standing portrait of a man and woman. The woman wears the distinctive head-dress described by Egerton: 'The head-dress of the Koolloo women is very peculiar, and to my eye extremely pretty, the hair being plaited and twisted round the head,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863
Extent:
1 item