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An Image Carved in the Rock - Near Wukka, Ladac (Recto)
Capt. Melville Clarke
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Two men stand at the foot of a rock relief carved onto the side of a cliff. The carving depicts a four-armed Maitreya, a bodhisattva figure. Two more men can be seen in the foreground on the lower left area of the image.
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Details
- Title: An Image Carved in the Rock - Near Wukka, Ladac (Recto)
- Creator: Capt. Melville Clarke
- Date Created: negative 1861; print 1861–1862
- Location Created: Mulbekh, Ladakh, India
- Physical Dimensions: 28.8 × 21.8 cm (11 5/16 × 8 9/16 in.)
- Type: Print
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Albumen silver print
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 84.XA.887.2.50
- Culture: British
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Creator Display Name: Capt. Melville Clarke (British, 1834 - 1878)
- Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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