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Subject Religious Sculpture

2971. Photo 1424/1(71)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/1(71)
Title:
[The Vatsala Devi Temple outside the southwest corner of the Pashupati complex.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View showing a portion of a torana above a doorway in the lower right and a wooden roof strut carved with Tantric themes. Behind the strut in the upper left of the photograph is a wall painting of a single female figure. The goddess’s festival takes place in the month of Chaitra (March/April) beg...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

2972. Photo 1424/1(72)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/1(72)
Title:
[The Vatsala Devi Temple outside the southwest corner of the Pashupati complex.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
A view showing a torana above each doorway and carved wooden roof struts, all displaying Durga motifs. These and the wall painting of a single dancing male skeletal figure reflect Vatsala’s Tantric role. The goddess’s festival takes place in the month of Chaitra (March/April) beginning from this ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

2973. Photo 1424/3(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/3(12)
Title:
[The Vajra (thunderbolt) at Swayambhu, Kathmandu.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of Vajra (thunderbolt) at Swayambhu, Kathmandu, viewed from the top of the stairs connecting the complex to the valley floor below. The photograph is shot from the north edge of the staircase looking a little south of true east. Immediately behind the Vajra, at the base of the dome of the S...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item

2974. PP.3803.bha, 1/1(3)

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

2975. PP.3803.bha, 2/10(4)

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

2976. PP.3803.bha, 2/14(4)

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

2977. PP.3803.bha, 3/1(1)

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

2978. PP.3803.bha, 3/4(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
PP.3803.bha, 3/4(6)
Title:
Images of the Five Hundred Gods [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of images ranged on wooden shelves, inside the temple seen in the preceding print.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

2979. PP.3803.bha, 3/5(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
PP.3803.bha, 3/5(5)
Title:
Idol and Pagoda, Kioto. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking up steps towards the temple entrance, with a Buddha image on a stone plinth in the left foreground.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

2980. PP.3803.bha, 3/6(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
PP.3803.bha, 3/6(5)
Title:
Images at Asakusa [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of two images, with Japanese figures posed in the foreground
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

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