SRI LANKA OLD PAINTINGS

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SRI LANKA OLD PAINTINGS

Dwelling of a coffee planter, Ceylon, c. 1852​

 

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Street scene looking towards the lighthouse, Point de Galle, c. 1852​

 

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Chinese gardens, Point de Galle, c. 1852​

 

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Kandy from the road skirting Wace Park, with the prison below and the peak of Hantanne beyond, 1884​

 

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The great elephant kraal of Kottawa, c. 1845​

 

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Don Andris Dewapura Wimalarat Jayesingha, Chief Carpenter of the Four Gravets of Galle,​

 

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Ran Nainda and Heem Appoo, brassworkers from Kandy at the India and Ceylon Exhibition, London, 1896​

 

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Silversmith at the India and Ceylon Exhibition, London, 1896​

 

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D. S. Mohandiram, pottery painter from Kandy at the India and Ceylon Exhibition, London, 1896​

 

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View of Trincomalee Harbour from the south looking across to Dutch Point, with the official quarters of the Assistant Government Agent in the middle distance and the fortified headland of Fort Frederick beyond, 1882-85​

 

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St Paul’s Church, Kandy, 1884​

 

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Temple of the Sacred Tooth, Kandy, 28 January 1868​

 

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The method of catching wild elephants by the kraal in the island of Ceylon, 1817​

 

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Military officers supervising the rounding up of elephants, c. 1825​

 

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A. de A. Rajepakse, Chief of the caste of cinnamon pickers, c. 1818​

 

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The Supreme Court of Judicature in the Island of Ceylon, c. 1820​

 

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River scene, Ceylon: Coconut groves and village by the river near Point de Galle (Ceylon). Sketched between December 1803 and January 1804​

 

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Mount Lavinia from the landward side, with the army barracks, sometimes used as a sanatorium, July 1837​

 

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Queen’s House with the old Dutch powder magazine on the right, Esplanade, Colombo, May 1837​

 

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Garden view of the Queen’s Pavilion, Kandy, c. 1837​