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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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3559)
Title:: No. 110. Rangoon. South Tazoung of the [Shwe Dagon] Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the wooden building with tiered roof, with part of the scaffolded dome of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda visible in the background. This is a poor quality photograph which appears to have suffered from camera movement during exposure. Letterpress continue...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3560)
Title:: No. 111. Rangoon. Side view of East Tazoung [Shwe Dagon Pagoda]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the tazoung or devotional chapel, a square open-sided wooden pavilion with tiered roof. With lion statues in the foreground. Letterpress continues: 'The base of the Pagoda is ornamented by brickwork lions, having altars for offerings before ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3564)
Title:: No. 115. Rangoon. Rear View of the [Shwe Dagon] Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Pagoda (covered in scaffolding), with smaller pagodas in the foreground. Letterpress continues: 'Taken from the N.W. corner of the platform. The scaffolding of bamboo, so much like basketwork, was put up by the Burmese to enable them to regil...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3565)
Title:: No. 116. Rangoon. Small Pagoda [on platform of Shwe Dagon]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Generally view of one of the ancillary pagodas of the Shwe Dagon. Letterpress continues: 'On the platform of the Shwe Dagon. There were numbers around the great Pagoda similar to this, which have been destroyed'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signe...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3566)
Title:: No. 117. Rangoon. Portico of the West Entrance of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of covered entrance. Letterpress continues: 'This is the landing of the west stairs opposite to the Tazoung on that side'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (117).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/35(3597)
Title:: Gopura of the Chennakeshava Temple, Belur. Photographer: Trail, David Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Temple car in right foreground. 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...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1873
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/45(4578)
Title:: View from the travellers' bungalow looking towards a temple gopura, Mangalagiri, Krishna District. Photographer: Thompson, Ross
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View from the bungalow seen in print 4576, looking towards a village set among trees, with a temple gopura beyond. Signed in the negative Ross Thompson Lt R.E. 186[print cropped].
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1863
Extent:: 1 item

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