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Photo 125/4

Record Id:

040-003048843

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003048490

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100025648639.0x000570

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 125/4

Title:

Sir Richard Carnac Temple Collection: Topographical and other views in India, China and Burma. Photographer(s): Felice Beato and others

Scope & Content:

Loose photographs the majority of which are mounted. Topographical and architectural views including Burma, a panorama of Port Louis, Mauritius, Beato's views during the Allied Forces march on Peking, Agra and its environs, Delhi, Kashmir, panorama of Calcutta, Lucknow, Benares, Kangra, Sarkhej, Ahmadabad and Sri Lanka.

Prints 67-116 form an incomplete series (wanting plate 1) of woodburytype views of examples of Indian decorative and applied arts, originally published as Fifty-one Photographic Illustrations Taken by Order of the Government of India of Some Selected Objects Shown at the Third Exhibition of Native Fine and Industrial Art Opened at Simla by His Excellency the Viceroy on the 24th September 1881 (London: 1883).

Sir Richard Carnac Temple (1850-1931), Indian Army, was an administrator in Burma and the Andaman Islands and writer on anthropological subjects.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003048490
040-003048843

Is part of:

Photo 125 : Sir Richard Carnac Temple Collection: Views of India, China and England. Photographer(s): Beato, Felice

Photo 125/4 : Sir Richard Carnac Temple Collection: Topographical and other views in India, China and Burma. Photographer(s): Felice Beato and others

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-003048490[0004]/040-003048843

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

197 items

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Techniques:

Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Woodburytype

Start Date:

1870

End Date:

1889

Date Range:

1870s-1880s

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 107 mm x 41 mm to 165 mm x 1950 mm

Source of Acquisition:

Presented by Sir Richard Carnac Temple, 1922.

Material Type:

Photographs

Legal Status:

Not Known

Names:

Beato, Felice, photographer; brother of Antonio Beato, 1832-1909