Subject: Religious Sculpture / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1203(21)
Title:: Angkor Wat: Elephant Terrace facing the Royal Palace. Photographer: Lois Conner
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed in pencil on back: Lois Conner AP 1/5 XXI. Close view of portion of frieze.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1993
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1203(24)
Title:: Angkor Wat, Bayon: second level, facing south. Photographer: Lois Conner
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed in pencil on back: Lois Conner AP 1/5 XXIV. Diptych of two joined prints.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1993
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1295(40)
Title:: Three-headed elephant guarding sanctuary, Arakan Pagoda, Mandalay, Burma. Photographer: Stereo Travel Company (New York)
Scope & Content:: Stereoscopic view, showing three young Burmese boys posed around the sculpture. Image copyrighted 1908, by the Stereo Travel Company.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1908
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1295(41)
Title:: Pilgrims feeding holy turtles, Arakan Pagoda, Mandalay, Burma. Photographer: Stereo Travel Company (New York)
Scope & Content:: Stereoscopic view, with figures on the bank of the tank in the foreground and the spire of the Arakan Pagoda rising beyond. Image copyrighted 1908, by the Stereo Travel Company.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1908
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1295(44)
Title:: Immense marble image of Buddha in a pagoda, Mandalay, Burma. Photographer: Stereo Travel Company (New York)
Scope & Content:: Stereoscopic view, Buddha image with figures kneeling in front. Image copyrighted 1908, by the Stereo Travel Company.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1908
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 1/1(3)
Title:: Daibutz, Kamakura, Japan. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Head-on view of the great bronze Buddha image at Kamakura.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 2/10(4)
Title:: Roku-ji-zo. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of the six stone images, placed beneath a thatched structure: '...the Roku-ji-zo, is a collection of six gods who are supposed to guard the roads that lead to the celestial and infernal regions, and they are supplicated to direct the way of the departed spi...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 2/14(4)
Title:: Idol of Jeso Sama, Lake Hakone. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View of the image, with two Japanese men in front: 'Emerging from a fine avenue of trees, we come to the shore of Lake Hakone, and upon a solitary idol, Jeso sama; a deified being who is supposed to keep the roads to Heaven and Hell. He is one of the rokujizo, a pho...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/1(1)
Title:: Siamese image, scroll, etc., formerly the property of Will Adams. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of a group of images, apparently belonging to William Adams (d. 1620), the earliest British resident in Japan. The relics belonged to the temple pictured in print 4. Adams' burial place at Hemi-mura was re-discovered by James Walters in 1872, and this issue...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/4(6)
Title:: Images of the Five Hundred Gods [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of images ranged on wooden shelves, inside the temple seen in the preceding print.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

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