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61. Add Or 3025

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Add Or 3025
Title:
Samyé and ceremonies there
Scope & Content:
‘No.6’ ‘1. Shinjhéchétag’ [gsin-rje-che-bdag] ‘Deota’ ‘2. Dorjéh Phagmo’ [rdo-rje-phag-mo] ‘(Devi) the same as the Bajésuri Devi at Kang’ [chi?]. ‘3. Tsangpa Tongtudchun’ [tshans-pa-dun-thod-can]’ Deota’ ‘4. Tumchundozhé Lagpa’ [dam-can-rdo-rje-legs-pa]’ Deota’ ‘5. Ekazati’ [e-ka-dza-ti]’ a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1844-1862
Extent:
1 Item

62. Add Or 3027

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3027
Title:
Chinese temple at Lhasa
Scope & Content:
Chinese temple at Lhasa. Inscribed: ‘This is a drawing of the Chinese Temple at Lassa, and is interesting as tending to show the powerful control which that nation exercises over the Tibetans at Lassa, who are of a different religion: still here is the Raja of Lassa and a deputy of the Gyalwa R...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1844-1862
Extent:
1 Item

63. Add Or 3028

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3028
Title:
Potala: a Kalacakra ceremony (?)
Scope & Content:
Potala: a Kalacakra ceremony (?) ‘Inscribed:’ ‘This scene is in the Potala at Lhasa, and in a square called Déyungshurr, bde-hbyun (origin or source of happiness)’ [bde-hbyun- ]. ‘The ceremony here pictured takes place in April on the 15th of Dawasumpé tséchogna. Dawa’ [zla-ba]’ is month,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1844-1862
Extent:
1 Item

64. Add Or 3029

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3029
Title:
Potala: the descent of the rope
Scope & Content:
Potala: the descent of the rope. Inscribed: ‘This represents a dangerous exhibition of a man traversing which takes place at the Potala on the 2nd day of the Lnsur’ [lo-gsar, new year]’ fair. It is called Chungkul-takshur’ [byan-khal-thag-sur]. ‘The people who exhibit come from Tsang, and the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1844-1862
Extent:
1 Item

65. Add Or 3270

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3270
Title:
The Mahabodhi temple, Bodhgaya
Scope & Content:
The Mahabodhi temple, Bodhgaya. By an Indian artist at Gaya, c.1810. Inscribed on back in ink: ‘Paid 14 Ans the 15th April 1812.’ Pencil; 480 by 345 mm. From the collection of James Chicheley Hyde (Add.Or.3188-3274). Presented by the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, London, 1973. Note...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1810
Extent:
1 Item

66. Add Or 3913

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3913
Title:
Entrance to the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon. Artist(s): Lar Ban, Maung (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
Entrance to the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon, c.1936. Inscribed on front in water-colour: ‘Mg. Lar Ban;’ on back in pencil: ‘Entrance to Shwe Dagon with Burmese Lion or Chinthe at the door.’ 330 by 246 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1936
Extent:
1 Item

67. Add Or 4612

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4612
Title:
Burmese pagoda.
Scope & Content:
Burmese pagoda. Inscribed to side in pencil: ‘Burmese monastery’. Engraving. 14.5 by 20 cm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

68. Add Or 5145

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Add Or 5145
Title:
Eight capriccio river scenes on the Pearl River, Canton. Looking downriver. Looking downriver. Painted junks on the river with an island fort on the left and the Whampoa Pagoda in the distance.
Scope & Content:
Looking downriver. Painted junks on the river with an island fort on the left and the Whampoa Pagoda in the distance.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1820
Extent:
1 Item

69. Add Or 5149

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5149
Title:
Eight capriccio river scenes on the Pearl River, Canton. Looking downriver. Boats on the river near the Whampoa Pagoda with an island fort on the right.
Scope & Content:
Boats on the river near the Whampoa Pagoda with an island fort on the right.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1820
Extent:
1 Item

70. L.R.420.c.10(47)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.420.c.10(47)
Title:
Coal Hill, looking towards the Winter Palace [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Distant view looking towards the stupa in the Winter Palace from the Coal Hill: 'The Mei Shan...(Coal Hill) or Ching Shan...(Prospect Hill) is an artificial mound about 150 feet high, north of the Imperial Palace...Its greatest length is East and West and ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 item

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