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5151. Photo 1253/1(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(4)
Title:
'Timur Shah’s Mosque.' Photographer(s): Burke, John
Scope & Content:
View of a mosque, with seven people under a tree on the right. Facsimile of work photographed by John Burke, 1879. There is a marking 'Burke 241', left edge of the image. Printed by Simon Norfolk, 2011 Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: BY APPOINTMENT / JNO: BURKE LATE / BAKER & BURKE ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

5152. Photo 1253/1(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(5)
Title:
Shah-do-Shamshira Mosque was built in the 1920s on the site of one of Kabul’s first mosques, the Mosque of the King with Two Swords, named in honour of an early Muslim king who died fighting Hindu invaders. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon
Scope & Content:
View from across a river of a Mosque on the right and a bridge on the left. Snow is on the ground. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk / Photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk / Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 / An archival, digital,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

5153. Photo 1253/1(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(19)
Title:
Jaw Aka Faizal Nahman and his daughter Nono from Bamiyan province, now living in an improvised plastic shelter in the ruined gardens of Darulaman Palace. Built in the 1920s to house an Afghan parliament, ‘Darul Aman’ translates as ‘abode of peace’. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
Scope & Content:
View of ruins of column arches with a man carrying a child standing on the left; a row of buildings is in the distance. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk / Photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk / Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 /...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

5154. Photo 1253/1(36)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(36)
Title:
Some of the astonishing new architecture mushrooming up in cities all over Afghanistan. Part Disney, part wedding cake; inspired by Bollywood but reverential to Greek classicism; it represents an architectless kind of architecture. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
Scope & Content:
View of a row of highly decorative buildings. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk / Photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk / Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 / An archival, digital, chromogenic print on Fujicolor Crystal Archive / Pho...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

5155. Photo 1315

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1315
Title:
Views of Calcutta. Photographer(s): Samuel Bourne and Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Collection of 27 loose prints, probably made in the 1970s/1980s, from Samuel Bourne and Bourne and Shepherd negatives taken between the 1860s and 1900s. Scenes include Government House, Bengal Secretariat (formerly Writers' Buildings), St Paul's Cathedral, the High Court, the site of the 'Black H...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860s-1880s
Extent:
27 items

5156. Photo 1320/6(61)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1320/6(61)
Title:
In the Caravanserai-i-Vakil [Kerman, Iran]. Photographer: Clarmont Skrine
Scope & Content:
View across courtyard towards the entrance gateway and towers.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:
1 photographic print

5157. Photo 1349(32)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1349(32)
Title:
The Pulpit of Omar, Mosque El-Aksa, Jerusalem. Photographer/Publisher: Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Stereoscopic double.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1904
Extent:
1 item

5158. Photo 1354

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1354
Title:
Photographs of Korea. Photographer: Mark de Fraeye
Scope & Content:
43 black-and-white prints of traditional Korean architecture, landscape and tree studies, with three colour landscapes.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2016
Extent:
43 black-and-white gelatin silver prints; 3 colour prints

5159. Photo 1362

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1362
Title:
Photographs of Nepal. Photographer: Theon Wilkinson
Scope & Content:
Collection of 70 loose black-and-white gelatin silver prints, taken by Theon Wilkinson while accompanying the blind New Zealand general, Sir Clutha Mackenzie on a tour of Nepal in 1947. Subjects include temple architecture in Kathmandu, street scenes, landscapes and portraits. The majority of the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1947
Extent:
70 items

5160. Photo 1367

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1367
Title:
Two photographs: A palace in Lucknow and a group portrait of Indian soldiers. Photographers: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Two albumen prints: Photo 1367(1). Husainabad Imambara, Lucknow. View looking towards the entrance gateway from inside the complex. Photo 1367(2). Group portrait of Indian soldiers.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1880s-1890s
Extent:
2 items

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