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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 61 Language Not applicable Subject Buddhist Temples

1. Photo 61/1(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(1)
Title:
No. 1. Prome. General View. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Panoramic view composed of two joined prints, looking over the town, with the Shwesandaw Pagoda on the right and the Irrawaddy in the background. The right-hand section of this view corresponds fairly precisely to Colesworthy Grant's watercolour (WD 540, p...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 61/1(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(2)
Title:
No. 2. Prome. North entrance to the Shwe San-dau Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the covered flight of steps leading up to the Shwasandaw Pagoda, flanked in the foreground by massive guardian chinthes. Letterpress continues: 'Burmese temples are usually, if the ground permit, on heights, the approach being by a flight of...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 61/1(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(3)
Title:
No. 3. Prome. West Entrance to the Shwe San-dau Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the covered flight of steps leading up to the temple, with a zayat of prilgrims' resthouse in the left foreground. Letterpress continues: 'Much dilapidated. The Zayat on the left has much fine carving on it'.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 61/1(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(4)
Title:
No. 4. Prome. A small Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards pagoda and surrounding buildings. Letterpress continues: 'This and No. 5 are close together in an open space near the house in which Captain Latter was murdered'.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 61/1(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(5)
Title:
No. 5. Prome. A small Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of temple buildings. Letterpress continues: 'The carved wood work of this has been stripped off. The centre building is of white stucco, gilt in the ornamental parts'.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 61/1(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(6)
Title:
No. 6. Thayet Myo. Pagoda on the S. of Cantonment. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of a small brick and stucco temple. The temple can be seen in the distance in Colesworthy Grant's watercolour view of Thayetmyo (WD 540, print 8). With letterpress note: 'Apparently a modernised copy of an architecture found at Pugahm [Pagan]'.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 61/1(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(7)
Title:
No. 7. Ye-nan-gyoung [Yenangyaung]. Pagoda and Kyoung. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across open level ground at Yenangyaung towards the temple and kyaung or monastery on a small hill. The view is taken from a similar spot to Colesworthy Grant's watercolour of the same scene (WD 540, print 19). Tripe's viewpoint is somewhat to the r...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 61/1(12)

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Photo 61/1(12)
Title:
No. 12. Tantabeng. Group of Pagodas. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of three ruined brick and stucco temples at Tantabeng, a few miles north of Yenangyaung on the east bank of the Irrawaddy (which is just visible in the extreme left background of this picture). The visit is mentioned in Yule's narrative, and Tanteben is mar...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Aug 1855
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 61/1(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(13)
Title:
No. 13. Pugahm Myo [Pagan]. Sheen-byeen-baudi Pagoda [Mahabodhi Pagoda]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Mahabodhi Pagoda at Pagan. With letterpress note: 'A peculiar specimen of Pugahm architecture rather Hindoo-like in style. The spire and walls outside are crowded with figures of Gautama in niches. In the enclosure in front are some fifty anc...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 61/1(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(14)
Title:
No. 14. Pugahm Myo [Pagan]. Shwe-Koo Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Shwegugyi Pagoda, which stands on a balustraded brick platform. With letterpress note: 'Or 'Golden Cane'. A good miniature specimen of the most decorated style of Pugahm architecture. It contains some remarkable inscriptions, and dates from a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item