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Photo 977(33)
- Record Id:
- 040-003298855
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003298821
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028276000.0x00068a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 977(33)
- Title:
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The Bridge of Rock [near Kurig]. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Landscape Photography
The rock bridge over the Para River near the village of Kurig was one of Egerton's main reasons for entering Chinese Tibet. 'Aug. 19th. Went down early in the morning to the rock bridge. The geological features here are most singular, and I am almost afriad to venture on describing them....On the north bank are rocks containing mica, quartz, felspar, and hornblende run mad, now combining to form a light-coloured granite, now stratified into gneiss, anon the mica obtaining a divorce and forming a new connection with the adjoining slate and hornblende, packing themselves into amicable strata. Around and above all is the unending limestone, of a pale grayish pink. It is a mass of this, eighty feet in length, which, becoming detached from the overhanging rocks above, has fallen across the bed of the torrent and formed a natural bridge. I annex two photographs of it [in fact, only one image is included in the volume], showing the upper and lower portion of this ponderous girder. Not without scathe did I obtain these pictures...' (Egerton, p. 47).
Subjects = Egerton, P.H., 'Journal of tour through Spiti...' (1864); landscape features; river scenes; rock formations
Location = Kurig; Tibet
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003298821
040-003298855 - Is part of:
- Photo 977 : Journal of a tour through Spiti, to the frontier of Chinese Thibet, with photographic illustrations. Photographer(s): Egerton, Philip Henry
Photo 977(33) : The Bridge of Rock [near Kurig]. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry - Hierarchy:
- 032-003298821[0034]/040-003298855
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 977
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1863
- End Date:
- 1863
- Date Range:
- 19 Aug 1863
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Egerton, Philip Henry, b 1824