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gelatin silver print

Photo 1231/4(18)

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Title

Photograph of Dunhuang Mogao Cave 435, north wall, taken by Irene Vincent in 1948.

Date

1948

Find site

Dunhuang Mogao

Measurement

height 20.6 centimetres, width 20.3 centimetres

Language / script

not applicable

Subject

Buddhism

Description

Scope and content : Plate 18, Irene Vongehr Vincent, 'The Sacred Oasis' (London, 1953). Caption reads: 'Detail of large Buddha with attendant bodhisattva.' Negative at Photo 1231/1(73).

Institution

British Library

Provenance

Vincents 1948-9

Find site identifier

DHMG.

Find site description

Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang

Sponsors

The Vincent Collection was generously donated by the photographers’ daughters and son in memory of their parents.

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