Entrance to the Nata Dewale Grounds, Kandy
Scowen & Co. (British, active Ceylon, 1876–1895)
c. 1880
- Medium
- Albumen print from glass plate negative
- Classification
- Photograph
- Dimensions
- Image: 28 x 22.1 cm (11 x 8 11/16 in.); Paper: 28 x 22.1 cm (11 x 8 11/16 in.); Mounted: 35.4 x 27.5 cm (13 15/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- India, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography
- Credit line
- Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This is probably the entrance to a site for the worship of Natha, the Ceylonese counterpart of the all-compassionate Buddhist deity Mahayana Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. The shrine in Kandy dedicated to him, considered an especially lucky and sacred place, was where some royal ceremonies were held, including that for the naming of new kings.
