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Subject Buddhist Architecture Material Type Photographs

1. 1784.a.10(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.10(22)
Title:
Kee Monastery. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of the monastery buildings at ki, clustered on a steep conical hill: 'July 16th. Marched to Kazé...About four miles from Khiebar was the monastery or Gonpa of Kee, the largest in Spiti. It is built on a small isolated hill, and is extremely peculiar and pic...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863
Extent:
1 item

2. 1784.a.10(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.10(23)
Title:
Dhunkur. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of the monastery and other buildings, perched on the mountainside over looking the cliffs: 'July 18th...The fort, monastery, and village of Dhunkur are most picturesquely situated on a bluff of conglomerate limestone, which is connected with the uplands by a na...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863
Extent:
1 item

3. 1787.d.7, 3(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(15)
Title:
Kwanyin Temple, Puto Island. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across a bridge towards monastery buildings on Putuo Island in the Zhou shan archipelago: 'Puto is one among a group of more than one hundred islands which stud the Chusan Archipelago. With the single exception of Puto, all the rest of these isles a...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

4. 1787.d.7, 3(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(16)
Title:
Silver Island, River Yangtsze. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the water towards the island: '...We proceed for about 140 miles up the river [from Shanghai] to Chinkiang [Zhenjiang]. A few miles below that city we pass the mouth of the Grand Canal, perhaps the greatest of the public works in China ... Here i...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1871-1872
Extent:
1 item

5. 1787.d.7, 3(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(17)
Title:
Golden Island, River Yangtsze. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Oval image. View looking across a stretch of open land on the riverbank, towards the monastery buildings and the Cishou Pagoda on Jin shan or Golden Island: 'Kin-Shan, or Golden Island, has attractions of its own no less remarkable than those of its sister islet bel...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1871-1872
Extent:
1 item

6. 1862.b.20(41)

Reference (shelfmark):
1862.b.20(41)
Title:
Buddhist Tope Ispola — between Ali Musjid and Landi Kotal. Photographer: Burke, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography General view of the Buddhist stupa, standing on a ridge overlooking the valley between Ali Masjid and Landi Kotal in the Khyber Pass. See also print 42.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878-1879
Extent:
1 item

7. 1862.b.20(42)

Reference (shelfmark):
1862.b.20(42)
Title:
General view Ispola and Sultan Kheyl villages — showing Buddhist Tope. Photographer: Burke, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Distant view, looking along the valley towards the stupa of Ispola and the villages of Sultan Khel. For a closer view of the stupa, see print 41. Another copy at Photo 430/2 (18).
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878-1879
Extent:
1 item

8. 1862.b.20(59)

Reference (shelfmark):
1862.b.20(59)
Title:
Buddhist temple — excavated at Ali Musjid. Photographer: Burke, John
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Burke 60' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View of the base of an excavated stupa at Ali Masjid, with friezes of lion figures and niches containing Buddha images. Another copy at Photo 430/2 (16).
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878-1879
Extent:
1 item

9. 1862.b.20(70)

Reference (shelfmark):
1862.b.20(70)
Title:
'Emankot' — Buddhist hill — east of Bassaule. Photographer: Burke, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards the hill, with ruins on the summit. An Indian soldier on horseback is posed in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878-1879
Extent:
1 item

10. 7703.f.19, 9(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
7703.f.19, 9(3)
Title:
View of the excavations [at Sultanganj]. Photographer: Harris, Edward Brickell
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Arched top. General view of the excavations made by Harris of the Buddhist site near the Sultanganj railway yard in 1862-63.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1862-1863
Extent:
1 item

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