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Photo 296/1(25)
- Record Id:
- 041-003060289
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003060263
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025712784.0x000306
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100162943050.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 296/1(25)
- Title:
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Commander in Chief of King Theebaw's Army in Court dress [Mandalay]. Photographer: Beato, Felice
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Portrait Photography
Full-length portrait of the former minister, seated on a mat and holding a fan. This portrait is reproduced in J. G. Scott's 'Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States' (5 vols, Rangoon, 1900-01), vol. I, pl.5, and there captioned 'The Myowun [Governor] of Mandalay in Court dress'. A cropped version of this portrait, in which he is identified as 'Taingda Mingyi who wielded considerable power,' is reproduced in W. L. Barretto, 'Mindon', Rangoon, n.d. [1935]), facing p. 113. Taingda Mingyi had been a minister under King Mindon and (according to Barretto, p. 113) was among those who voted for the appointment of Thibaw as Crown Prince.
A cropped version of this portrait is also reproduced in Gwendolen Trench Gascoigne, 'Among Pagodas and Fair Ladies' (London, 1896), p. 158. He is described in the text as 'a charming old man who had been head of the police in Thebaw's time' (p. 156). She describes his clothes in this photograph as 'his ministerial dress' (p. 161).
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003060263
040-003060264
041-003060289 - Is part of:
- Photo 296 : Sir Alexander Mackenzie Collection: Photographs of India and Burma. Photographer(s): Beato, Felice
Photo 296/1 : Sir Alexander Mackenzie Collection: Album of Views of Burma. Photographer(s): Beato, Felice
Photo 296/1(25) : Commander in Chief of King Theebaw's Army in Court dress [Mandalay]. Photographer: Beato, Felice - Hierarchy:
- 032-003060263[0001]/040-003060264[0025]/041-003060289
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 296
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100162943050.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print - Start Date:
- 1889
- End Date:
- 1891
- Date Range:
- c 1890
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Format: Photograph Album
Secondary Support: Paper
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known