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Photo 61/1(25)
- Record Id:
- 041-003043877
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003043851
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025648519.0x000946
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100145078600.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 61/1(25)
- Title:
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No. 25. Pugahm Myo [Pagan]. Carved doorway. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
- Scope & Content:
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Inscription: Signed 'L. Tripe' in ink, bottom right of print.
Genre: Architectural Photography
Close view of a richly and intricately carved wooden arched doorway and the tiered roof above, at the Shwe Zigon pagoda. With letterpress note: 'This is in the Court of Shwe Zeegong. It is ruinous and out of the perpendicular, but very interesting, and, being one of many in the same court and all differing, shows how fertile in design the Burmese are'.
Subjects = architectural elements; Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); doorways; pagodas; temples; woodcarving
Location = Burma; Magwe; Myanmar; Pagan
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003043851
040-003043852
041-003043877 - Is part of:
- Photo 61 : Views in Burma taken during the Mission to Ava. Photographer(s): Tripe, Linnaeus
Photo 61/1 : Views in Burma taken during the Mission to Ava. Photographer(s): Tripe, Linnaeus
Photo 61/1(25) : No. 25. Pugahm Myo [Pagan]. Carved doorway. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus - Hierarchy:
- 032-003043851[0001]/040-003043852[0025]/041-003043877
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 61
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100145078600.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-

- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Albumen Print
Albumen Print From Calotype Negative
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print - Start Date:
- 1855
- End Date:
- 1855
- Date Range:
- 1855
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 326 mm x 266 mm
Format: Loose
Secondary Support: Paper
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Tripe, Linnaeus, Major-General, Indian Army officer and photographer, 1822-1902
- Subjects:
- Architectural Elements
Architectural Types
Architecture
Buddhist Temples
Burma: Mission to Ava, 1855
Carving
Doors
Handicrafts
Religious Buildings
Shwe Zigon Pagoda (Pagan)
Temples
Wood Carving - Places:
- Bagan, Pagan, Magwe Division, Myanmar, Asia, Burma, South-east Asia