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Reference (shelfmark):: P3225(30)
Title:: 'Landing of Vijaya in Ceylon and his coronation, from cave XVII.' Copper plate of Fergusson (1880) number 61, page 314. Artist(s): Fergusson, James (1808-1886)
Scope & Content:: 'Landing of Vijaya in Ceylon and his coronation, from cave XVII.' Copper plate of Fergusson (1880) number 61, page 314.. Artist(s): Fergusson, James (1808-1886)
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: P3262
Title:: Summer Night, Harbin (Xiaye-Haerbin). . Artist(s): He Weimin (b.1964)
Scope & Content:: Black and white print depicting a festival with fireworks, woodcut printed with oil-based ink. Height 849mm, width 600 (image). The woodblock is part of the Chinese collection, shelfmark ORB MISC 29/10. Published in von de Burg, Christer, The Art of Contemporary Chinese Woodcuts, Muban Foundati...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1998
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 11(91)
Title:: Monuments of Sutteeism in the Kangra Valley. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:: View of stone sati memorials under a tree in the Kangra valley, taken by Samuel Bourne in the 1860s. Sati or the custom of a widow immolating herself on her husband’s funeral pyre was practiced by some Hindus, particularly the Rajputs. Sati slabs were placed in memory of the women who committed ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1864
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 20(28)
Title:: Devil dancers—Tongsa Jong [Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a group of costumed dancers and musicians gathered in a courtyard in the dzong at Tongsa. The photograph was also used in The National Geographic Magazine (Apr 1914, p. 439), with the following caption: 'A group of masked dancers—Tongsa-Jo...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1905
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 28/1(29)
Title:: Kangra. Monuments of sutteeism. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Bourne 511' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View of a group of sati memorial stones beneath a tree at Kangra, with figures posed on the wall surrounding the base of the trees.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1864
Extent:: 1 item