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040-003046625 Name Lawton, Joseph

1. Photo 92/17

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/17
Title:
Scott Collection: Photographs of the Ruined Cities of Ceylon. Photographer(s): Lawton, Joseph
Scope & Content:
Green buckram and half-leather bound album measuring 335 x 420 mm. The binding is in poor condition, with cloth lifting owing to damp and boards partially detached. The prints, however, are in generally fair condition, most mounted one to a page (recto only), with captions written in neat copper...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870-1871
Extent:
36 items

2. Photo 92/17(35)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/17(35)
Title:
Religious dancers at the Bo-tree ceremonies [Anuradhapura]. Photographer: Lawton, Joseph
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length standing portrait of two costumed dancers. [Albumen print, 127x200mm]. Subjects = archaeological sites; dance; religion; religion (Buddhism); religious ceremonies; Scott (Sir George) Collection Location = Anuradhapura; Ceylon; North Central Pro...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870-1871
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 92/17(36)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/17(36)
Title:
Sluice of the Giritella Tank. Photographer: Lawton, Joseph
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Slightly distant view of water emerging from sluice. [Albumen print, 151x203mm]. Subjects = archaeological sites; irrigation systems; Scott (Sir George) Collection; tanks; water supplies Location = Ceylon; Giritella; North Central Province; Sri Lanka
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870-1871
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 92/17(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/17(34)
Title:
[Pillars of the (?)Dalada Maligawa, Anuradhapura.] Photographer: Lawton, Joseph
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Uncaptioned print, showing a European figure standing amongst a large group of plain, square-sectioned pillars, with two guardstones in the foreground. Location unidentified, possibly part of the Dalada Maligawa (although the numbers of pillars do not appear to ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870-1871
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 92/17(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/17(2)
Title:
The Brazen Palace...Ruanveli Dagaba behind [Anuradhapura]. Photographer: Lawton, Joseph
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of the forest of standing pillars of the Brazen Palace or Lohapasada, with the Ruanveli Dagaba visible on the skyline in the background. The palace was so named from being roofed with copper tiles. The caption note reads in full: 'The Brazen Palace. These a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870-1871
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 92/17(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/17(8)
Title:
The Abhayagiraya Dagoba... [sic, for Jetawanarama Dagaba, Anuradhapura]. Photographer: Lawton, Joseph
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Jetawanarama Dagaba (here confused with the Abhayagiri: see note at print 7), the print heavily marked up in white for cropping. The caption note continues: '...is the largest at Anaradhapura, 460 feet high, and about half a mile round, built...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870-1871
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 92/17(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/17(10)
Title:
Dalada Maligawa (Tooth Temple). See first photo [Anuradhapura]. Photographer: Lawton, Joseph
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Entrance steps, guardstones and standing pillars of the relic temple before restoration. This photograph is reproduced in James G. Smther, 'Architectural Remains, Anuradhapura, Ceylon' (London, 1894, plate 54). The original, incorrect caption reading 'The Shrine...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870-1871
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 92/17(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/17(26)
Title:
Gateway of the Ruanwella Dagoba [corrected to: 'Altar of Ruanweli Dagaba']. [Anuradhapura]. Photographer: Lawton, Joseph
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Altar in foreground with a partially uncovered section of the dagaba frontispiece beyond. This wall is characterised by courses of elephant heads interspersed with discs. [Albumen print, signed 'Lawton' in the negative, 284x218mm]. Subjects = altars; archaeol...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870-1871
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 92/17(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/17(11)
Title:
Sigiri, a fortified rock, standing up perpendicularly from the plain, a haunt of bears which hide in the caves and caverns in the rock, the fortifications have long since been in ruins. Photographer: Lawton, Joseph
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography General view of Sigiriya rock fortress from the plain below. A note in Geraldine Mitton's hand reads: 'Sigiri rock from the south, showing part of the lake or tank [in foreground]. The extraordinary appearance of the red granite rock streaked with black by the soil ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870-1871
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 92/17(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/17(16)
Title:
Ruin at Anuradhapura [once] supposed to have been the King's Palace [but now known not to have been so. Shows very well the ravages of the ficus that deadly enemy of buildings of brick and stone]. Photographer: Lawton, Joseph
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Unidentified building being strangled by a fig tree. Notes in square brackets above are Geraldine Mitton's amendations to original caption. [Albumen print, signed 'Lawton' in the negative, 281x214mm]. Subjects = archaeological sites; ficus; Scott (Sir George)...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870-1871
Extent:
1 item