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Subject Kyaungs ( Burmese Monasteries)

1. Photo 61/1(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(7)
Title:
No. 7. Ye-nan-gyoung [Yenangyaung]. Pagoda and Kyoung. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across open level ground at Yenangyaung towards the temple and kyaung or monastery on a small hill. The view is taken from a similar spot to Colesworthy Grant's watercolour of the same scene (WD 540, print 19). Tripe's viewpoint is somewhat to the r...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 61/1(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(8)
Title:
No. 8. Ye-nan-gyoung [Yenangyaung]. Kyoung. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of side of monastery building, showing the intricate carved wooden decoration of the tiered roof and balustrade of the monastery. The monastery building can be seen in print 7: Tripe's viewpoint for the present photograph is from the slope on which th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 61/1(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(9)
Title:
No. 9. Ye-nan-gyoung [Yenangyaung]. Balcony of a Kyoung. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view from below, showing detail of wood-carving on the balcony of the monastery. With letterpress note: 'Quite Burmese in its grotesqueness'.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 61/1(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(20)
Title:
No. 20. Pugahm Myo [Pagan]. Kyoung near the Ananda Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed ' L. Tripe' in ink, bottom right of print. Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Kyaung or monastery attached to the Ananda Pagoda at Pagan. With letterpress note: 'Has some fine carvings about it; and attached to it, is a small building of masonry, the inter...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 61/1(55)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(55)
Title:
No. 55. Amerapoora [Amarapura]. Toung-lay-tiy Kyoung. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of carved stonework at the entrance to the monastery. With letterpress note: 'Monasteries are usually built of wood, this is of brick, its style too is uncommon in many of its details'.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 61/1(57)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(57)
Title:
No. 57. Amerapoora [Amarapura]. Street in the Suburbs. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'L. Tripe' in ink, bottom right of print. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along a street in Amarapura, with small private houses in the foreground, an open-sided resthouse (zayat) in the centre, and a monastery and temples beyond. With letterpress note: ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 61/1(60)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(60)
Title:
No. 60. Amerapoora [Amarapura]. Gateway of Maha Bounghian Kyoung. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'L. Tripe' in ink, bottom right of print. Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of the ornate brick and stucco gateway into the monastery. With letterpress note: 'A solidly built wall usually surrounds kyoungs; in the centre of each side of which is a gateway similar ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 70(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 70(5)
Title:
King Thee Baw's Kyoung [Mandalay]. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the kyaung or monastery in which Thibaw, former King of Burma, spent his early years.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s-1890s
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 88/1(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 88/1(30)
Title:
King Thibaw's Kyaung, Manadalay. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the highly decorated kyaung or monastery in which King Thibaw was educated.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 88/1(31)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 88/1(31)
Title:
A Burmese Monastery [?Wuntho]. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of a large monastery or kyaung, possibly at Wuntho.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item