Sir Richard Carnac Temple Collection: Photographs of Burma and Ceylon. Photographer(s): Oertel, Frederick Oscar
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Cloth-bound album measuring 278 x 370 mm, with 'Photographs' stamped in gold on front cover, uniform with Photo 242/1 and 2, in a poor state of repair. The majority of views show Buddha images and other devotional pieces from Burma, including a number of views taken at Kawgun Cave near Moulmein....
[South entrance of the Farm Cave, Moulmein District.] Photographer: Oertel, Frederick Oscar
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Genre: Landscape Photography With carved Buddha images at mouth of cave. This photograph also appears as plate 37 in F.O. Oertel, 'Notes on a Tour in Burma in March and April 1892' (Rangoon, 1893). Once full of Buddha images, by the late 1890s much had already been stolen or destroyed and in th...
Interior of a shrine or tazaung, Uzina Pagoda, Moulmein. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography Photograph also appears as plate 35 of F.O. Oertel, Notes on a Tour in Burma in March and April 1892 (Rangoon, 1893). Subjects = architectural elements; Buddha images; Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); Indian sculpture; pagodas; tazaungs (...
[Buddha] Images at Kemmendene [Rangoon], 1886. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography Seated figures of Buddha in a tazoung at Kemmendene. See also print 13. Subjects = Buddha images; Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); tazaungs (Burmese idol house) Location = Burma; Myanmar; Rangoon; Rangoon Division