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Subject Chortens Level [40] File

1. 1784.a.10(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.10(20)
Title:
Khiebar. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View across fields towards the cluster of houses of the village of Khibbar, reached by Egerton on 10 July: 'In Khiebar there are twenty houses belonging to landowners, and thirty of forty more inhabited by their dependants and artizans. Across a little ravine, front...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 20(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 20(7)
Title:
A Chuten [chorten] near the Monastery of Gorina [Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography This photograph also appears in The National Geographic Magazine (Apr 1914, p. 382), with the following caption: 'A fine example of chorten, or shrine, at Gorina Monastery, surrounded by prayer flags. In front a venerable lama is telling his beads. The carving a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 20(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 20(11)
Title:
Interior of main courtyard: Tashichhu Jong [Thimphu, Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the wide paved courtyard towards buildings of the dzong. Photograph also appears in The National Geographic Magazine (Apr 1914, p. 397) with the following caption: 'A courtyard at Tashi-Cho-Jong, with the Citadel on the left and a fine chorte...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 20(33)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 20(33)
Title:
Chuten [chorten or stupa] built on Nepalese model between Tongsa and Bya-gha [Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of the large chorten or stupa at the roadside. A photograph of the same structure, taken from a different angle and with a small river in the foreground, is at Photo 613 (27), there captioned 'Sambhunath Chutan on road between Simtokha and Tongsa E.' Subj...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1084, 1(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 1(15)
Title:
Chorten near Rin-chen-gong. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the shrine, with three women standing in front of the buildings: 'On the Mo-chu river opposite Rin-chen-gong, and is a good example of these very picturesque buildings.' Another copy (printed in platinum) at Photo 430/53 (16).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1903-1904
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1084, 1(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 1(21)
Title:
Kang-mar. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the valley towards the fort and a large chorten or stupa, with the tents of the British Mission pitched around the fortified position: 'The last post on the march to Gyang-tse. This fort was attacked on the early morning of the 6th June by a large...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1903-1904
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1084, 2(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 2(23)
Title:
The entrance to Lhasa. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking past a chorten or stupa through which the road passes, towards the Potala Palace rising beyond: 'Through this Chorten, Colonel Younghusband and escort marched on the 4th August, 1904, when European troops for the first time in history entered ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1084, 2(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1084, 2(24)
Title:
The Chorten, looking backward, or to the west from the foot of the Po-ta-la [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the road towards the chorten or stupa, also seen in print 23, with a group of monks standing in the roadway in the foreground. Another copy (printed in platinum) at Photo 430/53 (64).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item