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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 242 Language Not applicable Name Oertel, Frederick Oscar, b 1862

1. Photo 242

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 242
Title:
Sir Richard Carnac Temple Collection: Photographs of Burma and Ceylon. Photographer(s): Oertel, Frederick Oscar
Scope & Content:
Collection comprising three albums of photographs (Photo 242/1-3) of Burma and Ceylon. Sir Richard Carnac Temple (1850-1931), Indian Army officer, administrator in Burma and the Andaman Islands and writer on anthropological subjects.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s-1890s
Extent:
Unspecified

2. Photo 242/1(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 242/1(3)
Title:
[Kaunghmudaw Pagoda, Sagaing.] Photographer: Oertel, Frederick Oscar
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view. This photograph also appears as plate 16 in F.O. Oertel, 'Notes of a Tour in Burma in March and April 1892' (Rangoon, 1893). See Photo 998. Second copy negative at B.25603. Subjects = Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); pagodas...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1892
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 242/1(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 242/1(11)
Title:
[Small old brick pagodas near the Shwe Zigon Pagoda, Pagan.] Photographer: Oertel, Frederick Oscar
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography See Photo 125/4 (4) for duplicate and note. This photograph also appears as plate 20 in F.O. Oertel, Notes of a Tour in Burma in March and April 1892 (Rangoon, 1893). See Photo 998. Second copy negative at B.25611. Subjects = Burmese architecture; Burmese arch...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1892
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 242/1(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 242/1(12)
Title:
[Old brick pagoda near the Shwe Zigon Pagoda, Pagan.] Photographer: Oertel, Frederick Oscar
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography In some disrepair, with brickwork showing through stucco. This photograph also appears as plate 21 in F.O. Oertel, 'Notes of a Tour in Burma in March and April 1892' (Rangoon, 1893). See Photo 998. Second copy negative at B.25612. Subjects = Burmese architectu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1892
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 242/1(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 242/1(15)
Title:
Pagan. Bawdi Phaya. [Maha-Bodhi Pagoda.] Photographer: Oertel, Frederick Oscar
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography This photograph also appears as plate 24 in F.O. Oertel, 'Notes of a Tour in Burma in March and April 1892' (Rangoon, 1893); it is there titled, 'Pagoda at Pagan, with Dodhi Temple to the left, intended to be a copy of the Budhagaya Temple'. See Photo 998. Seco...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1892
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 242/1(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 242/1(18)
Title:
Pagan. General view. Photographer: Oertel, Frederick Oscar
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of temples and pagodas on the plain. This photograph also appears as plate 18 in F.O. Oertel, 'Notes of a Tour in Burma in March and April 1892' (Rangoon, 1893); it is there titled, ' View of Pagan from above the Court-House'. See Photo 998. Second copy neg...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1892
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 242/2(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 242/2(5)
Title:
Modern Pagoda[s] at Pagan. Photographer: Oertel, Frederick Oscar
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography This photograph also appears as plate 22 in F.O. Oertel, Note on a Tour in Burma in March and April 1892 (Rangoon, 1893). Second copy neg at B.25639. Subjects = Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); pagodas; temples Location = Burma; Magwe; ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1892
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 242/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 242/3
Title:
Sir Richard Carnac Temple Collection: Photographs of Burma and Ceylon. Photographer(s): Oertel, Frederick Oscar
Scope & Content:
Cloth-bound album measuring 278 x 370 mm, with 'Photographs' stamped in gold on front cover, uniform with Photo 242/1 and 2, in a poor state of repair. The majority of views show Buddha images and other devotional pieces from Burma, including a number of views taken at Kawgun Cave near Moulmein....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s-1890s
Extent:
52 items

9. Photo 242/3(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 242/3(2)
Title:
[South entrance of the Farm Cave, Moulmein District.] Photographer: Oertel, Frederick Oscar
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography With carved Buddha images at mouth of cave. This photograph also appears as plate 37 in F.O. Oertel, 'Notes on a Tour in Burma in March and April 1892' (Rangoon, 1893). Once full of Buddha images, by the late 1890s much had already been stolen or destroyed and in th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1892
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 242/3(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 242/3(10)
Title:
['Shwethayaung' or colossal recumbent image of Gautama, 181 feet long and 46 feet high, Pegu.] Photographer: Oertel, Frederick Oscar
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Shwethalyaung Image, Pegu. Photograph also used as plate 28 of F.O. Oertal, Notes on a Tour in Burma in March and April 1892 (Rangoon, 1893). Subjects = Buddha images; sculpture Location = Burma; Myanmar; Pegu
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1892
Extent:
1 item