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Photo 983(1)
- Record Id:
- 040-003299023
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003299022
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028276000.0x000732
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 983(1)
- Title:
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I-III. Western Front of Nakhon Wat. [Panoramic view of Angkor Wat]. Photographer: Thomson, John
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Architectural Photography
Panoramic view composed of three joined prints looking towards Angkor Wat from the second causeway at the western entrance. With the three central towers in the middle of the view.
'The outer boundary wall encloses nearly a square space space measuring about three-fourths of a mile each way, and is surrounded by a ditch 230 feet broad. This is crossed on the west by a raised stone causeway, having pillars on either side, and exquisitely sculptured flights of steps communicating with the water. Facing the cardinal points of the compass, and in the centre of each side of the boundary wall, there are long galleries with arched roofs and monolithic pillars, presenting a striking and classical appearance. Entering the main gateway through the western boundary, and passing up a broad inner caused, paved, like the outer one, with blocks of polished freestone, we approach the western front of the temple shewn in the photograph. Ascending to a cruciform terrace by a flight of steps, sculptured with the most beautiful ornaments, and guarded on either side by colossal stone lions, we stand before the principal entrance of the temple. The front is over 600 feet long. About a third of its entire length is walled-in in the centre, and divided into compartments lighted with windows, each window having seven ornamental stone bars. The floral patterns on these bars are as carefully repeated as if they had been cast from a single mould, or turned by machinery. These apartments occur in the centre of all the galleries, and may have been intended for the accommodation of priests. The remaining two-thirds of the gallery, as may be seen from the photograph, consists of open colonnades, the back walls of which are adorned with the exquisite bas-relief representations that form one of the chief attractions of Nakhon Wat. The hut on the left represents the dwelling of one of the modern priests attached to the temple...'
('Description of the Photographs', p. 21).
[Albumen prints, the three parts each signed 'J. Thomson' in the negative, 697x179mm].
Subjects = Khmer architecture; panoramas; printed books; temples; Thomson, J., 'The antiquities of Cambodia' (1867)
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003299022
040-003299023 - Is part of:
- Photo 983 : The antiquities of Cambodia. A series of photographs taken on the spot with letterpress description. Photographer(s): Thomson, John
Photo 983(1) : I-III. Western Front of Nakhon Wat. [Panoramic view of Angkor Wat]. Photographer: Thomson, John - Hierarchy:
- 032-003299022[0001]/040-003299023
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 983
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1866
- End Date:
- 1866
- Date Range:
- 1866
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Thomson, John
- Subjects:
- Angkor Wat (Cambodia)
- Places:
- Angkor, Siem Reap, Siem Reab [Siĕmréab], Cambodia, Asia