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

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3543)
Title:: No. 94. Amerapoora. Pyathat of Kyoung No. 93 [Maha Too Lo Bounghian Kyaung]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View of pavilion with slender tiered roof. Letterpress continues: 'This is a fine specimen of this kind of building, it is of wood, carved and gilt'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) on mount and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (94).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3544)
Title:: No. 95. Amerapoora. Balcony of a small Kyoung. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close-up detail of wood-carved balcony. Letterpress continues: 'This is another example of the fertility of design amongst the Burmese. It is of ungilt wood'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (95).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3545)
Title:: No. 96. Mengoon. Ruined Griffins. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Rear view of the massive headless chinthes in front of the Mingun Pagoda, with the Irrawaddy River beyond. Letterpress continues: 'In front of the Pagoda. These were 95 feet high; but, like the latter, were shattered by the earthquake of 1839. The heads and neck...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Sep 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3546)
Title:: No. 97. Mengoon. Pagoda from N.W. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the massive, cracked and ruinous pagoda (allegedly the largest mass of brickwork in the world). The Irrawaddy can be seen in the background. Letterpress continues: 'Begun but never completed by King Mendaraggee about the end of last century. It i...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Sep 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3547)
Title:: No. 98. Mengoon. Pagoda from S.E. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography With nearest corner collapsed. Letterpress continues: 'This corner shows the effects of the earthquake most completely. On reaching the top by it, the surface is seen rent into broad and deep fissures - a glacier in brickwork'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnum...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Sep 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3551)
Title:: No. 102. Rangoon. Signal Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the temple, with chinthes facing the roadway at the entrance. The circular object hanging from a yard at the top of the pagoda is presumably a time ball. Letterpress continues: 'From this a very extended view of the town and river can be had. It ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3555)
Title:: No. 106. Rangoon. View near the Lake. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the future Dalhousie Park towards the Shwe Dagon Pagoda on the skyline. Letterpress continues: 'Shwe Dagon in the distance'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (106).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3556)
Title:: No. 107. Rangoon. Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of Pagoda and platform. Note scaffolding around dome (see print 115). Letterpress continues: 'From H.M. 84th Barracks'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (107).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3557)
Title:: No. 108. Rangoon. South Entrance of Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards steps and entrance gateway. Letterpress continues: 'The road which leads to this, is, on festival days, crowded with Burmese, men, women, and children, in gay silks and muslins carrying offerings to the Pagoda'. With India Museum wetstamp (u...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3558)
Title:: No. 109. Rangoon. North Entrance to the Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the temple, with a fence of posts in the foreground. Letterpress continues: 'This was stockaded when the Pagoda was held by us against the Burmese'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Pho...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

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