Title(s)

View of the stupa of the Abhayagiri vihāra monastic complex in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-285-27

Inscriptions / marks

• title: ‘ABHAYAGIRIYA DAGABA.’

Artist

• Henry William Cave
• anonymous

Place

Anuradhapura

Dating

1896

Material

• paper

Technique

Woodburygravure

Measurements

height 120 mm × width 154 mm

What

• temple, shrine ~ Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism
• ruin of a building ~ architecture

Where

• Abhayagiri vihāra

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)