Temples, Bhatgaon. Photographer: Herzog and Higgins
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Genre: Architectural Photography Temple buildings, taken from a similar viewpoint to print 29, but with donor pillar of King Bhupatindra Malla largely out of picture at right. Subjects = Curzon Collection; Nepalese architecture; Nepalese architecture (Hindu); temples Location = Bhatgaon; Ne...
Curzon Collection: 'Tibet'. Photographer(s): White, John Claude
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Half-leather and green buckram album, measuring 373x460mm, stamped 'Tibet' in gilt on upper board and containing 89 mounted platinum prints with handwritten captions. The photographs were taken by White during three missions between 1902 and 1904, in which representatives of the Government of In...
The Teesta River [Sikkim]. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Landscape Photography General river scene. Another copy at Photo 1084/1 (1), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the caption reads: 'This stream takes its rise from a glacier in Sikhim and flows down to the plains of Bengal...For over fifty miles, from Sevoke to Gan...
The source of the Teesta [Sikkim]. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Landscape Photography Another copy at Photo 1084/1 (2), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the caption reads: 'This glacier, named the Phu-chung-phu glacier, is situated to the south of the Clolamo Lakes in the north of Sikhim, and is one of the most beautiful glac...
A glacial lake [Sikkim]. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Landscape Photography View across the lake towards ice hummocks, with a figure posed in the foreground. Another copy at Photo 1084/1 (3), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the caption reads: 'This lake is in the middle of a glacier coming down from the mountains t...
Genre: Architectural Photography View of the Tibetan fort and surrounding hills. Another copy at Photo 1084/1 (4), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the caption reads: 'This is the name of the Fort, which is surrounded by a small village. It was the first place in Tibet ...
Genre: Architectural Photography Near view of the Tibetan fort. This print is one of the handful in this album not reproduced in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]). Duplicate at Photo 761/1 (262).