Subject: Religious Images - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1258(16)
Title:: Indian gods in religious procession [Calcutta]. Photographer: Sperring, Stanley
Scope & Content:: Showing an image being processed through the streets.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1946-1953
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1295(20)
Title:: A Buddha, Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon, Burma. Photographer: Stereo Travel Company (New York)
Scope & Content:: Stereoscopic view, showing a large Buddha image on the platform of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Image copyrighted 1908, by the Stereo Travel Company.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1908
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1295(31)
Title:: Immense recumbent figure of Gautama, Pegu, Burma. Photographer: Stereo Travel Company (New York)
Scope & Content:: Stereoscopic view, looking towards the massive reclining Buddha image, with a guardian chinthe and women and children in the foreground. Image copyrighted 1908, by the Stereo Travel Company.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1908
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1295(32)
Title:: Near view of figure of Gautama at Pegu, Burma. Photographer: Stereo Travel Company (New York)
Scope & Content:: Stereoscopic view; a close view of the massive reclining Buddha image at Pegu. Image copyrighted 1908, by the Stereo Travel Company.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1908
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1295(44)
Title:: Immense marble image of Buddha in a pagoda, Mandalay, Burma. Photographer: Stereo Travel Company (New York)
Scope & Content:: Stereoscopic view, Buddha image with figures kneeling in front. Image copyrighted 1908, by the Stereo Travel Company.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1908
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 1/1(3)
Title:: Daibutz, Kamakura, Japan. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Head-on view of the great bronze Buddha image at Kamakura.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 2/10(4)
Title:: Roku-ji-zo. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of the six stone images, placed beneath a thatched structure: '...the Roku-ji-zo, is a collection of six gods who are supposed to guard the roads that lead to the celestial and infernal regions, and they are supplicated to direct the way of the departed spi...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 2/14(4)
Title:: Idol of Jeso Sama, Lake Hakone. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View of the image, with two Japanese men in front: 'Emerging from a fine avenue of trees, we come to the shore of Lake Hakone, and upon a solitary idol, Jeso sama; a deified being who is supposed to keep the roads to Heaven and Hell. He is one of the rokujizo, a pho...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/1(1)
Title:: Siamese image, scroll, etc., formerly the property of Will Adams. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of a group of images, apparently belonging to William Adams (d. 1620), the earliest British resident in Japan. The relics belonged to the temple pictured in print 4. Adams' burial place at Hemi-mura was re-discovered by James Walters in 1872, and this issue...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

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