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Watercolour

ca. 1920 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Shows a Burmese temple with its terraces and smaller stupa set on high ground with views to distant hills. In soft browns and greys with the tiny image of a monk dressed in saffron robes inside the towering entrance gates.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Paper and watercolour in contemporary mount and frame.
Brief description
Painting of a Burmese temple set in Pagan titled "Tha-Bin-U" Pagoda. Watercolour on paper. Artist Captain W. Braxton Sinclair, RE., FRIBA, ca. 1920
Physical description
Shows a Burmese temple with its terraces and smaller stupa set on high ground with views to distant hills. In soft browns and greys with the tiny image of a monk dressed in saffron robes inside the towering entrance gates.
Dimensions
  • Frame length: 34.7cm
  • Frame width: 28.3cm
  • Frame depth: 1.4cm
  • Sight measurement of painting height: 17.5cm
  • Sight measurement of painting width: 12.3cm
Credit line
Given by Mrs. Mary Simpson
Production
"Tha-Bin-U" here is evidently a picture of the Thatbyinnyu Temple built by Alaungsithu (1112-67) of the Pagan Dynasty AD 1044-1287.
Collection
Accession number
IS.70-1978

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Record createdJuly 23, 2001
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