Subject: Architecture / Place: Nepal, Asia - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

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

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1424/3(30)
Title:: Sacred river & burning ghat, Nepal. Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:: View of the preparting of bodies for cremation at the north end of Bhashmeshvar Ghat on the west bank of the Bagmati River at Pashupati. The stairs to the Ayar Ghat and southern most foot bridge are on the extreme right of the photograph. The three domes of the Bhashmeshvar Mahadev Temple rise ab...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1888-1892
Extent:: 1 item

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