Title(s)

Part of the southern altar of the Abhayagiri stupa in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-285-26

Inscriptions / marks

• title: ‘EAST END OF SOUTHERN ALTAR OF ABHAYAGIRIYA/ DAGABA.’
• signature: ‘Woodbury [?]’

Artist

• Henry William Cave
• Woodbury Permanent Photographic Printing Company (mentioned on object)

Place

Anuradhapura

Dating

1896

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 127 mm × width 77 mm

What

• altar ~ non-Christian religions
• sculpture (+ relief ~ sculpture)

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• The ruined cities of Ceylon (RP-F-2001-7-285)