Los 4037

Burma
Views of Rangoon

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 6.6.2026

Photographer: Philip Adolphe Klier (1845-1911). Views of Rangoon. 1880s. 12 albumen prints (1 duplicate), most mounted to board. Each between 19,5 x 26,5 cm and 20,5 x 26,8 cm or reverse (mounts between 27 x 34 cm and 29,5 x 40,5 cm or reverse). Each signed, titled, and numbered in the negative in the lower margin.

This lot comprises a range of views of Rangoon, including landscape scenes in the Cantonment Gardens with ponds, bridges, garden pavilions, and surrounding trees, as well as the Shwedagon Pagoda and its precincts, showing terraces, stairways, stupas, and shrine buildings, with groups of monks and laypeople visible within the temple complex.