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71. Photo 1000/34(3525)

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Photo 1000/34(3525)
Title:
No. 76. Amerapoora. Sindu Shwe koo Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the temple, with chinthe or leogriph guarding entrance at right. Letterpress continues: 'One of the most graceful buildings about the city. It is of white stucco, the scroll-work being gilt; the canopy on the summit is of wood, gilt and inlaid wi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

72. Photo 1000/34(3527)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3527)
Title:
No. 78. Amerapoora. Entrance of the Aracan Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along roadway lined with traders' stalls towards the entrance to the wooden temple. With a stone chinthe to the left of the building. Letterpress continues: 'One of the most frequented of the Amerapoora temples. The approach is a perfect bazaar. Ins...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

73. Photo 1000/34(3528)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3528)
Title:
No. 79. Amerapoora. Aracan Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view showing outer wall, somewhat dilapidated gateway, and temple beyond. Letterpress continues: 'About two miles from Amerapoora, here was placed the famous bronze image of Gautama 12 feet high brought from Aracan in 1784'.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

74. 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

75. Photo 1000/34(3546)

Reference (shelfmark):
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
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

76. Photo 1000/34(3547)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3547)
Title:
No. 98. Mengoon. Pagoda from S.E. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
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
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

77. Photo 1000/34(3555)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3555)
Title:
No. 106. Rangoon. View near the Lake. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the future Dalhousie Park towards the Shwe Dagon Pagoda on the skyline. Letterpress continues: 'Shwe Dagon in the distance'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (106).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

78. Photo 1000/34(3556)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3556)
Title:
No. 107. Rangoon. Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of Pagoda and platform. Note scaffolding around dome (see print 115). Letterpress continues: 'From H.M. 84th Barracks'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (107).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

79. Photo 1000/34(3557)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3557)
Title:
No. 108. Rangoon. South Entrance of Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards steps and entrance gateway. Letterpress continues: 'The road which leads to this, is, on festival days, crowded with Burmese, men, women, and children, in gay silks and muslins carrying offerings to the Pagoda'. With India Museum wetstamp (u...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

80. Photo 1000/34(3558)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3558)
Title:
No. 109. Rangoon. North Entrance to the Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the temple, with a fence of posts in the foreground. Letterpress continues: 'This was stockaded when the Pagoda was held by us against the Burmese'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Pho...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item