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451. Photo 1000/34(3540)

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Photo 1000/34(3540)
Title:
No. 91. Amerapoora. Balcony of Kyoung No. 86 [Maha-too-lo-Bounghian Kyoung]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close-up detail of richly-carved woodwork. Letterpress continues: 'The festooned panelling on this has very fine effect; the principal lines are marked by mirror. The corbels and open tracery below are remarkable'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and sig...
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Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

452. Photo 1000/34(3541)

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Photo 1000/34(3541)
Title:
No. 92. Amerapoora. Another part of the balcony of Kyoung No. 86 [Maha-too-lo-Bounghian Kyoung]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close-up detail of woodcarving. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (92).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

453. Photo 1000/34(3542)

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Photo 1000/34(3542)
Title:
No. 93. Amerapoora. Entrance of a Kyoung. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking up steps leading to balcony, with the tiered roof of the monastery beyond. Letterpress continues: 'In the same enclosure as Kyoung No. 86 [Maha-too-lo-Bounghian Kyoung]. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Dup...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

454. Photo 1000/34(3543)

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Photo 1000/34(3543)
Title:
No. 94. Amerapoora. Pyathat of Kyoung No. 93 [Maha Too Lo Bounghian Kyaung]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of pavilion with slender tiered roof. Letterpress continues: 'This is a fine specimen of this kind of building, it is of wood, carved and gilt'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) on mount and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (94).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

455. Photo 1000/34(3544)

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Photo 1000/34(3544)
Title:
No. 95. Amerapoora. Balcony of a small Kyoung. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close-up detail of wood-carved balcony. Letterpress continues: 'This is another example of the fertility of design amongst the Burmese. It is of ungilt wood'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (95).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

456. Photo 1000/34(3545)

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Photo 1000/34(3545)
Title:
No. 96. Mengoon. Ruined Griffins. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Rear view of the massive headless chinthes in front of the Mingun Pagoda, with the Irrawaddy River beyond. Letterpress continues: 'In front of the Pagoda. These were 95 feet high; but, like the latter, were shattered by the earthquake of 1839. The heads and neck...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

457. Photo 1000/34(3546)

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Photo 1000/34(3546)
Title:
No. 97. Mengoon. Pagoda from N.W. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the massive, cracked and ruinous pagoda (allegedly the largest mass of brickwork in the world). The Irrawaddy can be seen in the background. Letterpress continues: 'Begun but never completed by King Mendaraggee about the end of last century. It i...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

458. Photo 1000/34(3547)

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Photo 1000/34(3547)
Title:
No. 98. Mengoon. Pagoda from S.E. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography With nearest corner collapsed. Letterpress continues: 'This corner shows the effects of the earthquake most completely. On reaching the top by it, the surface is seen rent into broad and deep fissures - a glacier in brickwork'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnum...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

459. Photo 1000/34(3548)

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Photo 1000/34(3548)
Title:
No. 99. Mengoon. Small bell in front of Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography The bell hangs from a wooden post supported between two stone pillars with onion-domed capitals. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (99).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

460. Photo 1000/34(3549)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3549)
Title:
No. 100. Rangoon. Patent slip. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Showing a small open boat on the patent slip on the Rangoon River. Letterpress continues: 'In the government dockyard'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (100).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item