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411. 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

412. Photo 1000/34(3501)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3501)
Title:
No. 52. Amerapoora. Mosque. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the ornately embellished minaret of the mosque at Amarapura. Letterpress continues: 'This is in China Street. There are some thousands of Mahomedans and numbers of Mosques in and about Amerapoora. The architecture of the latter partakes much...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

413. Photo 1000/34(3502)

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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
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

414. Photo 1000/34(3503)

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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

415. Photo 1000/34(3504)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3504)
Title:
No. 55. Amerapoora. Toung-lay-tiy Kyoung. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close-up detail of carved stonework at the entrance to the monastery. Letterpress continues: 'Monasteries are usually built of wood, this is of brick, its style too is uncommon in many of its details'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the pr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

416. Photo 1000/34(3505)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3505)
Title:
No. 56. Amerapoora. View on the Lake. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Looking towards temples on the farther shore, and the city in the left background. Letterpress continues: 'Taken from the causeway crossing the Toung-deman lake at its eastern extremity. A glimpse of the city is caught on the left'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnum...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

417. Photo 1000/34(3506)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3506)
Title:
No. 57. Amerapoora. Street in the Suburbs. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along a street, with small private houses in the foreground, an open-sided resthouse (zayat) in the centre, and a monastery and temples beyond. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (57).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

418. Photo 1000/34(3507)

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Photo 1000/34(3507)
Title:
No. 58. Amerapoora. S.E. Corner of the City Wall. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the moat at its south-east angle, with city wall beyond and temple pagodas in the background. Letterpress continues: 'The city is nearly a square of a mile each side surrounded by a brick wall and a wide ditch. A pagoda dominates at each corn...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

419. Photo 1000/34(3508)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3508)
Title:
No. 59. Amerapoora. S. Ditch of the City Wall. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking west along the moat, photographed from the same position as print 58. Letterpress continues: 'The ditch continues for the east, south, and part of the west and north sides. On the latter sides men were at work completing the circuit'. With India Mus...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

420. Photo 1000/34(3509)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3509)
Title:
No. 60. Amerapoora. Gateway of Maha Bounghian Kyoung. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close-up of the ornate brick and stucco gateway into thre monastery. Letterpress continues: 'A solidly built wall usually surrounds kyoungs; in the centre of each side of which is a gateway similar to the above'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signe...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item