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151. Photo 1002/21(1100)

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Photo 1002/21(1100)
Title:
Buddhist sculpture slab from the lower monastery at Nuttu, Peshawar District: the Nirvana of Buddha. Photographer: Serrot, M.
Scope & Content:
This is one of a series of photographs taken for Cole at Mardan by Serrot, and not, as Bloch's list states, by Cole himself. Reproduced in photogravure in Illustrations of Graeco-Buddhist sculptures from the Yusufzai District, in vol. I of H.H. Cole, Preservation of monuments in India (c. 1885),...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Apr 1883
Extent:
1 item

152. Photo 1002/22(1108)

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Photo 1002/22(1108)
Title:
Frieze from the upper monastery at Nuttu, Peshawar: Buddha's pyre and worship of his ashes. Photographer: Serrot, M.
Scope & Content:
This is one of a series of photographs taken for Cole at Mardan by Serrot, and not, as Bloch's list states, by Cole himself. Reproduced in photogravure in Illustrations of Graeco-Buddhist sculptures from the Yusufzai District, in vol. I of H.H. Cole, 'Preservation of monuments in India' (c. 1885...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
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Date Range:
1883
Extent:
1 item

153. Photo 1002/23(1161)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/23(1161)
Title:
Heads of Buddha and Bodhisattva statues, and sculpture slab representing worship of a stupa, from the Swat Valley [Loriyan Tangai]. Photographer: Alexander Edwin Caddy.
Scope & Content:
A somewhat faded print. Theodore Bloch, in A list of the photographic negatives of Indian antiquities in the collection of the Indian Museum: with which is incorporated the list of similar negatives in the possession of the India Office (Calcutta: 1900), notes that the sculptures are 'said to b...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 item

154. Photo 1002/23(1163)

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Photo 1002/23(1163)
Title:
Buddhist sculptures from the Swat Valley [Loriyan Tangai]. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Collection of relief sculptures, a standing Bodhisattva at left, with other pieces and fragments. Sculptures 'said to be in Major Deane's possession' (Bloch): see note at print 1161. The central and largest panel shows the death of the Buddha (Mahaparanirvana)...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 item

155. Photo 1003(71)

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Photo 1003(71)
Title:
Group of terracotta figures from Bodh Gaya. Photographer: Garrick, Henry Baily Wade
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography A very dark print, group of terracotta images of Hindu deities and Buddha images. The top right-hand piece is reproduced in Alexander Cunningham, 'Mahabodhi or the Great Buddhist Temple under the Bodhi Tree at Buddha-Gaya' (London, 1892), pl. xxiv (b). Credited ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
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Date Range:
1880-1881
Extent:
1 item

156. Photo 1003(74)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(74)
Title:
Small statues in the temple at Ghenjam. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Group of Hindu and Buddhist statues, listed as 'Shiva and Parvati, Ganesha, Vishnu, Naga-Kanya, Avalokiteshvara and Tara.' Credited to beglar, but possibly by Garrick (see note at print 73). Duplicate of Photo 1002 (74).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 item

157. Photo 1003(78)

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Photo 1003(78)
Title:
Statue of Buddha at Kauwa Dol Hill. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
'...The most prominent one is of Buddha, 7 feet in height, and 7½ feet broad, and which is now worshipped as Bhim Sen. The face is 16 inches broad...' (Cunningham and Garrick, op. cit., p.48). Photograph probably taken in the 1870s: Cunningham, writing after his 1880 visit, states that '...Mr Be...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
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Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

158. Photo 1003(78a)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(78a)
Title:
Statue of Buddha at Kauwa Dol Hill. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
Scope & Content:
Another view (poorish quality) of the sculpture seen in print 78. Taken at a later date. Duplicate of Photo 1002 (78a).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1895
Extent:
1 item

159. Photo 1003(189a)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(189a)
Title:
Statue of Buddha at Nalanda. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
Scope & Content:
Small format print; poor quality. Duplicate of Photo 1002 (189a).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1895
Extent:
1 item

160. Photo 1003(210)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(210)
Title:
Statue of Buddha, Jagdispur. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography 'List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal' (Calcutta, 1896), pp. 274-275: 'Jagdispur ... is celebrated for a large statue of Buddha ... It is 15 feet high by 9½ feet broad. It represents the ascetic Buddha seated under the Bodhi tree and surrounded by agents of the t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872-1873
Extent:
1 item

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