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

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/3(44)
Title:: Interior of Joss House [Canton]. Photographer: Lai Afong
Scope & Content:: Canton was visited by the compiler of this album between 24th and 28th February, 1879. With contemporary descriptive letterpress label: 'No. 50-Mars, Boreas, &c. The truculent fellow on the one side is the God of war; on the other we have the God of wind. These figures must not be taken as r...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/3(45)
Title:: [Chinese] Priests. Photographer: Lai Afong
Scope & Content:: Full-length studio portrait of a group of priests, with a table in the centre on which stand religious articles and a miniature statue of Buddha. With contemporary descriptive printed label: 'No. 42-Priests. And here are the priests. Dirty, ignorant, lazy rascals, without exception; but in China...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/5(27)
Title:: Daibutz [Buddha image at Kamakura]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Inscribed and numbered Daibutz 351 in the negative. View looking towards the massive Buddha image at Kamakura.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1295(40)
Title:: Three-headed elephant guarding sanctuary, Arakan Pagoda, Mandalay, Burma. Photographer: Stereo Travel Company (New York)
Scope & Content:: Stereoscopic view, showing three young Burmese boys posed around the sculpture. 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(41)
Title:: Pilgrims feeding holy turtles, Arakan Pagoda, Mandalay, Burma. Photographer: Stereo Travel Company (New York)
Scope & Content:: Stereoscopic view, with figures on the bank of the tank in the foreground and the spire of the Arakan Pagoda rising beyond. 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):: Photo 1424/1(67)
Title:: Steps up to Temples [Swayambhu Stupa, Kathmandu Valley.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:: View of steps leading to temples. Swayambhu Stupa, Kathmandu Valley: Small chaityas populate the eastern flank of Swayambhu Hill. A small pair of lions guarding a pair of Buddhas mark the beginning of the path to the complex. The Buddhas, lions and chaityas have been refurbished and continue to o...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1888-1892
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1424/1(68)
Title:: [The Vajra (thunderbolt) at the Swayambhu Stupa, Kathmandu Valley.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:: View of a scuplture, Vajra (thunderbolt) at the Swayambhu Stupa, Kathmandu Valley, viewed from the north across the top of the staircase down the eastern flank of the hill to the valley floor below. The top of the stairs is immediately to the left of the Vajra and its guardian lion. A second lion...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1888-1892
Extent:: 1 item

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