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1. 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

2. 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

3. Photo 1424/3(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/3(10)
Title:
Fountains. Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of an unidentified hiti in the Kathmandu Valley. People are seen washing at the communal water spouts. Each of the three spouts is surmounted by a shrine. A carved image of Bhagiratha can be seen underneath the spout on the left in the photograph.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

4. 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

5. 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

6. Photo 1424/3(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/3(3)
Title:
[Radha Krishna temple at Teku, Kathmandu.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of Radha Krishna temple at Teku, Kathmandu, showing the Chintamani Tirtha Ghat and a two-story sattal behind. Teku Thapathali is located at the confluence of the Bagmati and Bishnumati rivers. Corresponds to Photo 1424/1(33) (glass plate negative).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1424/3(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/3(9)
Title:
Fountains, Nepal [The Naudhara (“nine spouts”).] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of the Naudhara (“nine spouts”) is located in Godawari municipality at the base of Phulchoki, the tallest hill of the Kathmandu Valley. Phulchoki is on the southern rim of the Valley about 18 kilometres south-east of the Kathmandu Darbar Square. Godawari is elevated enough above the Valley f...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

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