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Container Reference (shelfmark) Photo 1424/3 Subject Architecture

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. Photo 1424/3(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/3(26)
Title:
Sacred river used for bathing. Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of buildings along side the river. The Arya Ghat on the west bank of the Bagmati River looking north and upstream from the stone footbridge connecting the ghat to the Pandra Shivalaya shrines. On the right of the image are the river steps in front of the unseen Pandra Shivalaya. On the left,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

18. Photo 1424/3(27)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/3(27)
Title:
[Seto Darbar, Kathmandu.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of a palace and gardens. The neoclassical Rana palace - also known as the White Palace - was completed in 1890 by Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, who was prime minister from 1885-1901. The Seto Darbar was located to the south of the Narayanhiti Palace and is considered by some to be one of t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

19. Photo 1424/3(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/3(28)
Title:
View of Palace with hills behind. Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
A view looking northwest to Phora Darbar with a Newar-style palace behind and the hills of the present Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park in the distance. The neoclassical Phora Darbar ("Fountain Palace") was built by the architect Kishor Narsingh Rana for Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, prime mini...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

20. Photo 1424/3(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/3(29)
Title:
Temple, Nepal. Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View looking east, showing a numerous Shiva shrines as well as two of the buildings (sattals) within the complex. The Gorakhnath Mandir Temple is located on the hill directly east across the Bagmati River from the Pashupati Temple and along the pathway leading from the footbridges to the Mrigasth...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

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