Archive Reference (shelfmark): Photo 1000 / Subject: Buddhist Architecture - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3473)
Title:: No. 24. Pugahm Myo [Pagan]. Entrance to the Shwe Zeegong Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking towards the entrance of the Shwe Zigon Pagoda, flanked by two massive chinthes or stone leogriphs. Letterpress continues: 'Shwe Zeegong is one of the most favourite places of worship in Burmah. It contains a facsimile of one of Gautama's tee...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3474)
Title:: No. 25. Pugahm Myo [Pagan]. Carved doorway. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Richly-carved wooden doorway. Letterpress continues: 'This is in the Court of Shwe Zeegong. It is ruinous and out of the perpendicular, but very interesting, and, being one of many in the same court and all differing, shows how fertile in design the Burmese are'...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3475)
Title:: No. 26. Tsagain Myo [Sagain]. A small Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view. Letterpress continues: 'An example of the highly decorated modern Pagoda'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (26).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Aug 1855-Sep 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3476)
Title:: No. 27. Tsagain Myo [Sagain]. Pagoda in ruins. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of a small temple, its pagoda partly collapsed and overgrown with vegetation. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (27).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Aug 1855-Sep 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3477)
Title:: No. 28. Tsagain Myo [Sagain]. Tazoung. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View of a tazoung, an open-sided wooden structure with a series of sloping roofs. Temple padoga in background. Letterpress continues: 'A description of idol house sometimes attached to a pagoda. This is rather Moresco in character; I do not remember having seen ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Aug 1855-Sep 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3479)
Title:: No. 30. Tsagain Myo [Sagain]. Ruined Tazoung. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of a dilapidated tazoung or idol house, with images of the Buddha in the centre. Temple pagodas in background. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (30).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Aug 1855-Sep 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3481)
Title:: No. 32. Tsagain Myo [Sagain]. Doorway of a small Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close-up view of doorway, with richly-carved surround. Letterpress continues: 'A very fair specimen of a style of architectural decoration in Burmah'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (32).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Aug 1855-Sep 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3482)
Title:: No. 33. Tsagain Myo [Sagain]. Zayat. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the small white single-storey brick and stucco building, set amongst trees. Letterpress continues: ' Buildings of this kind are both for secular and religious purposes. They are resting places for travellers, refectories for votaries of the Templ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Aug 1855-Sep 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3484)
Title:: No. 35. Tsaing Myo [Sagain]. Kowa-doung Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of pagodas, with the Irrawaddy visible in the background. Letterpress continues: 'The terrace, on which this stands, is one of three covered with Pagodas and Kyoungs. On the opposite of the Irrawadi is Ava; the river at this point is about 1100 yard...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Aug 1855-Sep 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3490)
Title:: No. 41. Amerapoora. East Door of the Maha-thugea-yan-tee Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close-up view of decorated doorway. Letterpress continues: 'Near the Residency, said to have been built after the plan of the Ananda at Pugahm. There are four entrances like this, the interiors of which are decorated with representations of the worship of Gautam...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:: 1 item

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