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91. Photo 61/1(89)

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Photo 61/1(89)
Title:
No. 89. Amerapoora. A doorway of Kyoung No. 86 [Maha-too-lo-Bounghian Kyoung]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close-up detail of decorated doorway. Letterpress continues: 'The door itself is scarcely more than five and a half feet high'. Subjects = architectural elements; Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); doorways; kyaungs (Burmese monasteries); m...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

92. Photo 61/1(90)

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Photo 61/1(90)
Title:
No. 90. Amerapoora. Front of the W. part of Kyoung No. 86 [Maha-too-lo-Bounghian Kyoung]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close-up detail of verandah and doorway. Letterpress continues: 'Called ah-nouk (west) tazoung and used as a kind of ante-room for inferior priests and servants of the kyoung'. Subjects = architectural elements; Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Budd...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

93. Photo 61/1(91)

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Photo 61/1(91)
Title:
No. 91. Amerapoora. Balcony of Kyoung No. 86 [Maha-too-lo-Bounghian Kyoung]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close-up detail of richly-carved woodwork. Letterpress continues: 'The festooned panelling on this has very fine effect; the principal lines are marked by mirror. The corbels and open tracery below are remarkable'. Subjects = architectural elements; Burmese ar...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

94. Photo 61/1(92)

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Photo 61/1(92)
Title:
No. 92. Amerapoora. Another part of the balcony of Kyoung No. 86 [Maha-too-lo-Bounghian Kyoung]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close-up detail of woodcarving. Subjects = architectural elements; Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); kyaungs (Burmese monasteries); monasteries; woodcarving Location = Amarapura; Burma; Mandalay Division; Myanmar
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

95. Photo 61/1(93)

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Photo 61/1(93)
Title:
No. 93. Amerapoora. Entrance of a Kyoung. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking up steps leading to balcony, with the tiered roof of the monastery beyond. Letterpress continues: 'In the same enclosure as Kyoung No. 86 [Maha-too-lo-Bounghian Kyoung]. Subjects = Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); kyaungs (Bu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

96. Photo 61/1(94)

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Photo 61/1(94)
Title:
No. 94. Amerapoora. Pyathat of Kyoung No. 93 [Maha Too Lo Bounghian Kyaung]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of pavilion with slender tiered roof. Letterpress continues: 'This is a fine specimen of this kind of building, it is of wood, carved and gilt'. Subjects = Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); kyaungs (Burmese monasteries); monasteries; ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

97. Photo 61/1(95)

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Photo 61/1(95)
Title:
No. 95. Amerapoora. Balcony of a small Kyoung. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close-up detail of wood-carved balcony. Letterpress continues: 'This is another example of the fertility of design amongst the Burmese. It is of ungilt wood'. Subjects = architectural elements; Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); kyaungs (Bu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

98. Photo 61/1(96)

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Photo 61/1(96)
Title:
No. 96. Mengoon. Ruined Griffins. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Rear view of the massive headless chinthes in front of the Mingun Pagoda, with the Irrawaddy River beyond. Letterpress continues: 'In front of the Pagoda. These were 95 feet high; but, like the latter, were shattered by the earthquake of 1839. The heads and neck...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

99. Photo 61/1(97)

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Photo 61/1(97)
Title:
No. 97. Mengoon. Pagoda from N.W. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the massive, cracked and ruinous pagoda (allegedly the largest mass of brickwork in the world). The Irrawaddy can be seen in the background. Letterpress continues: 'Begun but never completed by King Mendaraggee about the end of last century. It i...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

100. Photo 61/1(98)

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Photo 61/1(98)
Title:
No. 98. Mengoon. Pagoda from S.E. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography With nearest corner collapsed. Colesworthy Grant's watercolour sketch of the same subject (WD 540, print 62) is taken from an almost identical viewpoint. Letterpress continues: 'This corner shows the effects of the earthquake most completely. On reaching the to...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item