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1041. Photo 1000/34(3561)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3561)
Title:
No. 112. Rangoon. Henzas on the East side of the [Shwe Dagon] Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of henza posts set among small pagodas in the Shwe Dagon. Letterpress continues: 'These, painted in bright colours diapered with gold and silver (traces of which still remain) must have had a very gay appearance. Henza staves are attached to all pag...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

1042. Photo 1000/34(3562)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3562)
Title:
No. 113. Rangoon. Great Bell of the [Shwe Dagon] Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography The bell, in an open-sided pavilion, stands beneath a large tree. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (113).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

1043. Photo 1000/34(3563)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3563)
Title:
No. 114. Rangoon. The Votive Tree. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Offerings hanging from the tree, probably in the precincts of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Letterpress continues: 'Offering of muslin are suspended from this in honor of Gautama; some even have prayers written on them in the idea that every breeze would waft their petitio...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

1044. Photo 1000/34(3568)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3568)
Title:
No. 119. Rangoon. Mission House at Kemindine. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of a two-storey verandahed house, with a hipped roof of thatch. Letterpress continues: 'The style of dwelling adopted by Europeans in Burmah'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (119).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

1045. Photo 1000/35(3595)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/35(3595)
Title:
Colossal rock-cut figures of Jain tirthankaras, Gwalior. Photographer: Herne, George Edward
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of the rock sculptures of Jain tirthankaras in the Urvahi Valley on the western side of the fort. Duplicate of print 3384.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

1046. Photo 1000/35(3596)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/35(3596)
Title:
Image of Ganesha at Halebid. Photographer: Trail, David Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography With letterpress caption pasted onto mount beneath print, and pencilled annotation 'S.K. [South Kensington] Exhibition 1873'. The exhibition class label is pasted to the reverse of the mount. The series of prints 3596-3611 is also clearly the collection from whi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

1047. Photo 1000/42(4335)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4335)
Title:
Group portrait of pupils of the London Mission Girls' Boarding School, Bangalore. Photographer: Henry Dixon.
Scope & Content:
Group of 24 girls and teacher, arranged in three rows. Print signed H. D. in the negative, and shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1867.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

1048. Photo 1000/42(4336)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4336)
Title:
The Rev. Habb preaching to the Klings (South Indians) in Pinang. Photographer: Kristen Feilberg
Scope & Content:
Open-air sermon in progress. Print shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1867. View of Rev. Habb conducting an open-air sermon to a large group of Indian settlers in Pinang, Malaysia, taken by Kristen Feilberg. This Photograph is part of the Archaeological Survey of India Collection and was exhibite...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

1049. Photo 1000/42(4368)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4368)
Title:
Studio portrait of Khan Bahadur Dustorjee Nosherwanjee, Parsee High Priest of the Deccan, at Bombay. Photographer: William George Stretton.
Scope & Content:
Half-length studio portrait, with letterpress title on mount. Photographed at Stretton's 'Byculla Studio'. Another portrait at Photo 447/3 (50).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

1050. Photo 1000/42(4383)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4383)
Title:
Portrait of the Rev. P. Rajahgopaul of the Free Church of Scotland Mission, Madras. Photographer: Madras School of Industrial Arts
Scope & Content:
Numbered 2430 on mount. Full-length seated studio portrait. Revd. P. Rajahgopaul was Presbyter to the Indian population from 1858. Forename given as G. in caption, but as P. in almanacs.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

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