Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:
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Statue of James Outram, Calcutta, 1874
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022G/81
Scope and Contents
232 x 276 mm. This picture was presumably taken about the time of the statue’s completion in 1874, since the inscription seen in later photographs has not yet been carved on the plinth. For a note on the statue, see Y3022BB/26.
Dates:
1874
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Statue of Parakrama-Bahu [and] Abhayagiriya Dagoba, 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Ceylon/70
Scope and Contents
The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'Abhayagiriya (Jeta-vana-rama) Dagoba at Anu-radha-pura. 2nd Century, B.C.
The great stone statue of Parakrama-Bahu at Pollon-naru-a [i.e. Polonnaruwa]. 12th Century, A.D.'.
Dates:
1924
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Statue of Queen Victoria, Agra, 1902 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022R/295
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The prints are of two types; large professional photographs, chiefly of Benares, Delhi, and Agra, and smaller amateur prints. presumably by Davies, relating both to these places and to Kashmir - river and mountain scenes. These are chiefly on left hand pages, with professional photographs on the right, and are captioned. Towards the end of the album, after a series of Agra scenes, there is a group of interesting...
Dates:
1902 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Statue of Sir Stamford Raffles, 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ORCS.2.02
Scope and Contents
Bronze statue. Its base reads 'Sir Stamford Raffles, Founder of Singapore 1819.' Replica of statue of Raffles by Thomas Woolner unveiled in Singapore in 1887.
Dates:
1919
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Statue of the late Queen Empress, 1906-03-17 - 1906-03-19
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 8/231
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints. This appears to have been an official record of the Royal Tour. Each page has a heading for the place and date and most photographs are captioned, probably by a professional calligrapher. The Prince of Wales Feathers are on the cover and 'The Royal Tour of India 1905-1906' on the spine. Locations and periods covered are: Bombay, 9 November- 14 November, 1905; Udaipur, 18 November - 29 November, 1905; Jaipur, 21 November-23 November, 1905; Lahore, 28 November-1...
Dates:
1906-03-17 - 1906-03-19
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Statuette of Buddha after his 49 days fast, 1908-02 - 1908-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 6/848
Scope and Contents
Half-plate. Sculpture in homeblende schiste excavated at Sikri (Yusuf Zai) district of Peshawar. 3ft [i.e. feet] high by 2ft [i.e. feet] broad - now in Lahore Museum - one of the finest examples of ancient sculptures found in India. (Fisher).
Dates:
1908-02 - 1908-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/28
Scope and Contents
278 x 198 mm. A view showing numerous small figures, including humans, animals and models of chariots, executed in an unsophisticated style.
Dates:
1881
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/29
Scope and Contents
278 x 190 mm. A view showing numerous small figures and also steatopygus female figures.
Dates:
1881
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/41
Scope and Contents
303 x 178 mm. A view showing statues and heads carved in Hellenistic and (?) Oriental style.
Dates:
1881
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/42
Scope and Contents
282 x 199 mm. A view showing several small statuettes, carved in (?) Oriental style.
Dates:
1881
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/43
Scope and Contents
287 x 195 mm. A view showing several small statuettes carved in (?) Oriental style.
Dates:
1881
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/44
Scope and Contents
299 x 148 mm. A view showing several statuettes carved in Hellenic style.
Dates:
1881
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/45
Scope and Contents
316 x 161 mm. A view showing several statuettes carved in Hellenic style.
Dates:
1881
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/48
Scope and Contents
312 x 138 mm. A miscellaneous display of statuettes including female figures, satyrs, and a rooster.
Dates:
1881
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/49
Scope and Contents
309 x 150 mm. A view showing mainly female full-length statuettes in Hellenistic style.
Dates:
1881
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/50
Scope and Contents
310 x 149 mm. A miscellaneous display of statuettes in Hellenistic style, including female figures, animals, Hercules wrestling with a serpent and a figure of Pan.
Dates:
1881
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/51
Scope and Contents
297 x 146 mm. A miscellaneous display of statuettes in Hellenistic style, including female figures and masked figures.
Dates:
1881
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/52
Scope and Contents
315 x 160 mm. A miscellaneous display of statuettes, with figures in Hellenistic style in the foreground (including a representation of Leda and the swan), and Cypriot figures behind (including a steatopygous female and an almost abstract rendering of a mother and child).
Dates:
1881
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/53
Scope and Contents
312 x 149 mm. A display of figures in Hellenistic style including two statuettes of humans riding cockerels.
Dates:
1881
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/54
Scope and Contents
309 x 142 mm. A large display of miscellaneous figures in Hellenistic style.
Dates:
1881
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes and other artefacts], 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/55
Scope and Contents
313 x 197 mm. A large display of miscellaneous objects, including bottles and vases, and figures in Hellenistic and Cypriot style.
Dates:
1881
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Steady as we go! Unloading goods, 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3038E/28
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A series of thirty-two photographs taken by Douglas Moore in 1949, depicting views and aspects of the lives and conditions of the inhabitants of Hong Kong. The photographs were printed and mounted for an exhibition at the North Staffordshire Polytechnic in the 1980s. The average size of each print (inner mount measurement) is 290 mm x 360 mm. The photographs are each individually captioned on the reverse and are accompanied by Mr Moore’s introductory caption for the exhibition:Hong...
Dates:
1949
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Steam ferry, Prai River, Penang, 1884
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/12
Scope and Contents
204 x 151 mm. Showing the raft ferry, powered by a steam engine and protected by a roof above the open sides, on the Prai River, which debouches, on the Port Wellesley mainland near Butterworth, opposite George Town. On the raft itself are two Europeans in white uniforms, two hack gharries and a number of other passengers. A photograph probably taken in 1884 on completion of improvements to the Prai ferry.
Dates:
1884
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Steam launch, Sara N.B.S.R., 1871 - 1894
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/25
Scope and Contents
256 x 150 mm. Showing a steamer launch moored on the Ganges at Sara.
Dates:
1871 - 1894
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Steamer for Goa, 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 7/951
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). People waiting to go to Goa from Carmac Bund, Bombay (Goa steamer to left of picture).
Dates:
1908
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).