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781. Photo 1000/34(3495)

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Photo 1000/34(3495)
Title:
No. 46. Amerapoora. Colossal Statue of Gautama close to the N. end of the bridge. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the statue of the seated Buddha, surrounded by small pagodas. Letterpress continues: 'Its height is about 37 and a half feet above the throne'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (4...
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Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

782. Photo 1000/34(3496)

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Photo 1000/34(3496)
Title:
No. 47. Amerapoora. Gateway behind the Statue. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards arched gateway leading to pagodas. Letterpress continues: 'The latter [viz. the statue of Buddha seen in print 46] is in a square enclosure formed by a well built wall nine feet high, in the centre of each side of which, is a Gateway like th...
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Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

783. Photo 1000/34(3497)

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Photo 1000/34(3497)
Title:
No. 48. Amerapoora. View amongst the Pagodas near the Statue [of Gautama]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Path leading between temples. Letterpress continues: 'These buildings are attached to Pagodas'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (48).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

784. Photo 1000/34(3498)

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Photo 1000/34(3498)
Title:
No. 49. Amerapoora. Mhoo-daughee Pagoda [Kaunghmudaw Pagoda, Sagain]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Kaunghmudaw Pagoda, a stupa partially obscured by a tree in the foreground. A few miles north of Sagain rather than in Amarapura. Letterpress continues: 'Very like the Bilsa Topes described by Major Cunningham. This is however quite modern, h...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

785. Photo 1000/34(3499)

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Photo 1000/34(3499)
Title:
No. 50. Amerapoora. Thamboukday Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking towards the small pagoda, its surface honeycombed with apertures. Letterpress continues: 'This curious little pagoda is literally covered with small niches (about 1100) containing figures of Gautama. The worshippers have carried their attent...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

786. Photo 1000/34(3500)

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Photo 1000/34(3500)
Title:
No. 51. Amerapoora. Sekia Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking towards the entrance of this elaborately carved temple. Letterpress continues: 'This is the resort of Astrologers, (Brahmins, natives of India, or Manipore) who sit on the ground under the spacious colonnades of the Pagoda with mysterious lo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

787. Photo 1000/34(3502)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3502)
Title:
No. 53. Amerapoora. Nagayoung Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Nagayon Pagoda, surmounted by a massive stone dragon. Letterpress continues: 'This symbolises a legend in the history of Gautama, when he was sheltered by a dragon in its folds'. This illustration is used as plate 14 in Henry Yule, A Narrativ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

788. Photo 1000/34(3503)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3503)
Title:
No. 54. Amerapoora. Bodan Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view, looking along roadway towards temple With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (54).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

789. Photo 1000/34(3515)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3515)
Title:
No. 66. Amerapoora. Shwe-doung-dyk Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking towards temple pagoda and kyoung, with tank in foreground. Letterpress continues: 'This view is from the embankment of a tank N.E. of the city, much of the carved work has been stripped off the kyoung near the pagoda. With India Museum wetst...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

790. Photo 1000/34(3524)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3524)
Title:
No. 75. Amerapoora. A street in the city. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Letterpress continues: 'The pagoda on the right is the Shwe-yeen-yay; that in the distance the Sindu Shwe koo'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (75).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

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