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Photo 210/1(45)
- Record Id:
- 041-003056273
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003056227
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025702187.0x000752
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100144469460.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 210/1(45)
- Title:
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Galle. View from the Saluting Battery, looking down towards the native town. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Landscape Photography
The original Bourne & Shepherd number, 2068, is on the print; however it appears to have been renumbered at a later date as the same view is described as No 2114 in a subsequent Bourne & Shepherd catalogue.
Subjects =
Location = Ceylon; Galle; Sri Lanka
Photograph of the port of Galle in Sri Lanka (Ceylon), taken by Bourne and Shepherd in c.1872. This is a view from the Saluting Battery looking towards the native town. Galle, on the south-western coast of the island, has a natural harbour and is one of the most ancient settlements of Sri Lanka, a port from pre-Christian times. It is protected by a promontory called the Rock or Galle Point. Galle was the main port of the island even though entrance to its harbour was dangerous because of submerged rocks and reefs, until supplanted in the 1870s after the construction of breakwaters in the development of Colombo's harbour. The Portuguese arrived in the early 16th century and built a small fort here, but it was after Galle was captured by the Dutch in 1640 that it achieved its greatest prosperity. The English replaced the Dutch in 1796 but made few changes to the town and today it is the surviving Dutch architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries which lends Galle its charm.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003056227
040-003056228
041-003056273 - Is part of:
- Photo 210 : 'Journey of 1871-2. Photographs. A. W.' (Two volumes.) Photographer(s): Arnoux, Hippolyte
Photo 210/1 : 'Journey of 1871-2. Photographs. A. W'. [Vol. I]. Photographer(s): Arnoux, Hippolyte
Photo 210/1(45) : Galle. View from the Saluting Battery, looking down towards the native town. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd - Hierarchy:
- 032-003056227[0001]/040-003056228[0045]/041-003056273
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 210
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100144469460.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1871
- End Date:
- 1873
- Date Range:
- c 1872
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Former External References:
- 2068
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known