Janus: 18 photographs of Burma [Myanmar]

RCS/Y3029D contains:
1	Ex King Theobaw [Thibaw] and his wife Soopalayat [Supyalat]
2	Burmese Women
3	Burmese [?] Pooay or Theatrical Dancing
4	Burmese band
5	Cremation of a Poongyi or Burmese priest
6	Cremation of a poongyi [Burmese priest]
7	Shway [Shwe] Dagon (or the Golden) Pagoda - Rangoon
8	Corner of Dalhousie Street, Rangoon
9	River side view, Rangoon
10	Elephants at work. Bombay Burma Timber Yard, Rangoon
11	Elephant crossing river on a raft, Burmah [i.e. Myanmar]
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18 photographs of Burma [Myanmar]

Title	Ex King Theobaw [Thibaw] and his wife Soopalayat [Supyalat]
Reference	Y3029D/1
Creator	Jackson, J, fl 1860-1919, photographer (?)
Extent and Medium	Fair condition, slight fading.

Content and context

200 x 139 mm. Showing Thibaw (d. 1916), the last King of Burma 1878-85, and his wife and half-sister Supyalat, seated on cushions. Parts of the photograph have been retouched and the background painted out. After the surrender of the Burmese to British forces in November 1885, Thibaw and Supyalat were sent into exile in India where Thibaw remained until his death. Supyalat was later allowed to return to Burma and died in Rangoon some years later. Thibaw employed a court photographer during his reign and a number of portraits and negatives were found by the British in the palace and marked by various photographers.

Unlike the majority of images in this collection, there is no photographer's name on the reverse of the print. However, the original typescript catalogue credits J. Jackson.

Further information

For a note on portraits of Thibaw see:

Falconer, John (1983), Willoughby Wallace Hooper, Photographic Collector, Volume 4, Number 3, pp. 258-286.

Indexed

CN/CUL Y3029D/1.

Index Terms

Asia

Thibaw (fl 1875-1885) King of Burma

Jackson, J (fl 1860-1919) photographer

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