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51. Photo 1000/18(1925)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/18(1925)
Title:
Bharot's House, Patan, showing elaborate wood carving on upper storey. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Reproduced in collotype in Burgess, 'Archaeological Survey of Western India', IX, plate 22, where it is described (p. 52) as one of the houses of 'the late Bharot Kahanji Umadsinghji in Khada Khotadi's Mahalla'. Head-on view of the façade of the haveli. An almos...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jan 1890-Feb 1890
Extent:
1 item

52. Photo 1000/18(1926)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/18(1926)
Title:
Front of a banya's house, Patan, showing elaborate wood carving on upper storey. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography See also print 1927.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jan 1890-Feb 1890
Extent:
1 item

53. Photo 1000/18(1927)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/18(1927)
Title:
Detail of upper storey of front of a banya's house, Patan, showing elaborate wood carving. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of the upper storey of the house seen in print 1926.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jan 1890-Feb 1890
Extent:
1 item

54. Photo 1000/18(1940)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/18(1940)
Title:
Carved wooden balcony window, Siddhapur. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography With richly carved corbelling and details. Architectural drawings of the front and side elevations are reproduced in Burgess, 'Archaeological Survey of Western India', IX, plate 46. 'Gujarat, as already remarked, is full of examples of artistic wood-carving appl...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

55. Photo 1000/20(2320)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/20(2320)
Title:
Close view of a carved wooden balcony on a house at Dabhoi. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

56. Photo 1000/30(3001)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/30(3001)
Title:
Tritchindoor [Tiruchendur] Pagoda. Section of old door under great tower. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close-up of carving on massive wooden door at base of temple gopura. Received from Captain Lyon, 5th May 1871. India Museum no. 1242. Duplicate at Photo 212/3 (22).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1868
Extent:
1 item

57. Photo 1000/34(3457)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3457)
Title:
No. 8. Ye-nan-gyoung [Yenangyaung]. Kyoung. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of the kyaung or monastery at Yenangyaung, showing the intricate carved decoration of the tiered roof and balustrade. Letterpress continues: 'This monastery is a fine specimen of provincial architecture'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (8).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

58. Photo 1000/34(3458)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3458)
Title:
No. 9. Ye-nan-gyoung [Yenangyaung]. Balcony of a Kyoung. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close-up detail of wood-carving on the balcony of the monastery. Letterpress continues: 'Quite Burmese in its grotesqueness'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (9).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

59. Photo 1000/34(3474)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3474)
Title:
No. 25. Pugahm Myo [Pagan]. Carved doorway. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Richly-carved wooden doorway. Letterpress continues: 'This is in the Court of Shwe Zeegong. It is ruinous and out of the perpendicular, but very interesting, and, being one of many in the same court and all differing, shows how fertile in design the Burmese are'...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

60. Photo 1000/34(3480)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3480)
Title:
No. 31. Tsagain Myo [Sagain]. Litters under a shed. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
View of intricately-carved wooden sedan chairs lying in a shed, partially overgrown with vegetation. Letterpress continues: 'These were left by will to the Aong-mre-lo-ka Pagoda near them, by members of the Royal family; equipages belonging to them, being considered too sacred to be used by othe...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Aug 1855-Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item