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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 1424 Level [41] Item

111. Photo 1424/3(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/3(15)
Title:
[Two unidentified men, one wearing the Royal Nepalese Army uniform and holding a baton.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of two unidentified men, one wearing the Royal Nepalese Army uniform and holding a baton. (same: JGC 017) Corresponds to Photo 1424/1(17) (glass plate negative).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

112. Photo 1424/3(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/3(16)
Title:
[A side view of Bagh Darbar (Bag Darbar) and its surrounding walled garden, Kathmandu, looking northwest.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
A side view of Bagh Darbar (Bag Darbar) and its surrounding walled garden, Kathmandu, looking northwest. A man can be seen working in the middle of the garden, giving scale to the built structures. The spire of a Ram Chandra temple and a pagoda-style temple are visible behind the palace and the t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

113. Photo 1424/3(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/3(17)
Title:
[A crowd in front of the western facade of the Newar-style Gaddi Baithak, Basantapur Darbar Square, Kathmandu.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of a crowd in front of the western facade of the Newar-style Gaddi Baithak, Basantapur Darbar Square [Kathmandu Durbar Square], Kathmandu. Chandra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana replaced this structure with a neoclassical building in 1908. This building became the primary reception and ceremonia...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

114. Photo 1424/3(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/3(18)
Title:
A Nepalese Soldier & his Wife. Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of a Royal Nepalese Army Band clarinetist poses with his wife and two children.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

115. Photo 1424/3(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/3(19)
Title:
Nepalese dancing girl. Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of a female dancer with band playing traditional instruments. The dancer is wearing traditional Newar clothing: parsi (a sari with many pleats), misālan (blouse fastened with cloth ties and gā (shawl) wrapped around her upper body. The headdress is worn for special events. The instruments, l...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

116. Photo 1424/3(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/3(20)
Title:
View of carved window, Nepal. Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of a carved bay window with portraits of a woman and children dressed in European clothing are barely visible in the windows. These richly carved Newar windows are often built as a tripartite (sajhyah) on the second floor of a building and can protrude as a bay window.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

117. Photo 1424/3(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/3(21)
Title:
[A view north to buildings in the Thapathali Darbar complex, Kathmandu.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
A view north to buildings in the Thapathali Darbar complex, Kathmandu. The buildings are Newar in style but the palace in the centre of the photograph shows a later addition of a Rana-style columned portico. Nain Singh Thapa (1777-1806/7) of the Thapa dynasty is credited with building the initial...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

118. Photo 1424/3(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/3(22)
Title:
[Unidentified Newar-style buildings.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of an unidentified Newar-style buildings joined by a gate, possibly part of the Thapathali Darbar complex, Kathmandu.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

119. Photo 1424/3(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/3(23)
Title:
View of carved window, Nepal. Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of a Newar window is the centre window in a tripartite (sajhyah) also photographed. The windows held portraits, not visible in this image.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

120. Photo 1424/3(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/3(24)
Title:
Golden roof Temple. Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of the eastern entrance to a temple with a two-tiered gilded copper roof. The temple is named for Pashupati, the Lord of Animals incarnation of Shiva. Its origins as a religious site predate history. The temple was reconstructed in its present form in 1697 in the reign of Bhupalendra Malla.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item