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55mm slide

Photo 1231/6(7)

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Title

Photograph by John Vincent of the Dunhuang Mogao Cave 254 in 1948.

Date

1948

Find site

Dunhuang Mogao

Measurement

height 5.5 centimetres, width 5.5 centimetres

Language / script

not applicable

Subject

Buddhism

Description

Scope and content : Photograph by John Vincent of Dunhuang Mogao Cave 254 in 1948 captioned in his list as 'A larger view of 1/8 [jataka of tigress] including a white pagoda.' The painting is that reproduced as Plate 18 (b&w) in Basil Gray, 'Buddhist Cave Paintings at Tun-Huang' (Faber: London 1959), which is captioned: 'The Jataka of the Tigress. About A.D. 475–500.'

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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