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Painted Buddha with dragon-arch shrine. Unidentified temple (possibly Kelaniya, Dambulla or Kandy).
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Ancient Ruins

Painted Buddha with dragon-arch shrine

Unidentified temple (possibly Kelaniya, Dambulla or Kandy)
c. 1885–1905

Certainty
Uncertain
The kind of scene is clear, but the place or people are not established.
On the print
Scowen
Maker
Scowen & Co
Date basis
Estimate from photographic style and subject
Identified by
Visual identification
Reference
TCP-R91

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