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Container Reference (shelfmark) Photo 61/1

71. Photo 61/1(71)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(71)
Title:
No. 71. Amerapoora. A street leading to the Palace. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along a street with lined with single-storied thatched houses towards the pyathat of the palace in the distance. Letterpress continues: 'The Ooh-nein gate leads into this street. The Palace is the centre of the city, and the streets leading from the cen...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

72. Photo 61/1(72)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(72)
Title:
No. 72. [unnumbered]. Amerapoora. The Yoom-dau. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography An open-sided wooden building with tiered roof, standing on piles. Letterpress continues: 'This is the Hall of Justice on the left of the east side of the Palace'. Subjects = audience halls; Burmese architecture Location = Amarapura; Burma; Mandalay Division...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

73. Photo 61/1(73)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(73)
Title:
No. 73. Amerapoora. Palace of the White Elephant. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography A square, open-sided wooden hall with tiered roof. A number of cannons lie in the courtyard in the foreground. Letterpress continues: 'The white elephant is the same Crawfurd saw in 1826; it is now fifty years old: it has its guards, four white and eight gold um...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

74. Photo 61/1(74)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(74)
Title:
No. 74. Amerapoora. Gautama's Shrine. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Shrine with figures of the Buddha receving homage from a white elephant and a nat. Letterpress continues: 'This is at the Sontoung-pyee-tiyne Pagoda. The white elephant and a Nat are making offerings to Gautama. The Nats, in Burman belief, are an order of being ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

75. Photo 61/1(75)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(75)
Title:
No. 75. Amerapoora. A street in the city. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); pagodas; temples Location = Amarapura; Burma; Mandalay Division; Myanmar
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

76. Photo 61/1(76)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(76)
Title:
No. 76. Amerapoora. Sindu Shwe koo Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the temple, with chinthe or leogriph guarding entrance at right. Letterpress continues: 'One of the most graceful buildings about the city. It is of white stucco, the scroll-work being gilt; the canopy on the summit is of wood, gilt and inlaid wi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

77. Photo 61/1(77)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(77)
Title:
No. 77. Amerapoora. The Kings' Water Palace. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Wooden building raised on thick piles, with a slender central pyathat or tiered spire. Letterpress continues: 'On the banks of the Irrawadi, used chiefly on the occasion of a boat-race'. Subjects = Burmese architecture; palaces Location = Amarapura; Burma; M...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

78. Photo 61/1(78)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(78)
Title:
No. 78. Amerapoora. Entrance of the Aracan Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along roadway lined with traders' stalls towards the entrance to the wooden temple. With a stone chinthe to the left of the building. Letterpress continues: 'One of the most frequented of the Amerapoora temples. The approach is a perfect bazaar. Ins...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

79. Photo 61/1(79)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(79)
Title:
No. 79. Amerapoora. Aracan Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view showing outer wall, somewhat dilapidated gateway, and temple beyond. Letterpress continues: 'About two miles from Amerapoora, here was placed the famous bronze image of Gautama 12 feet high brought from Aracan in 1784'. Subjects = Burmese architec...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

80. Photo 61/1(80)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(80)
Title:
No. 80. Amerapoora. Kyoung near the Aracan Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of the central portion of the monastery, with stone staircase leading to the first floor platform in foreground. Letterpress continues: 'This is the longest kyoung in this neighbourhood, its platform is about 400 feet long. It is gilded'. Subjects = Burme...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item