Posted on: 26 April 2015

Digital Rare Book :
Sketches from NIPAL - Historical and descriptive, with anecdotes of the court life and wild sports of the country in the time of Maharaja Jang Bahadur, G. C. B.
By Henry Ambrose Oldfield
Published by W.H.Allen & Co., London - 1880
In Two Volumes

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Image:
Watercolour of the Krishna Temple in Patan by Henry Ambrose Oldfield (1822-1871), dated c.1855. The image is inscribed on the front in ink: 'H.A. Oldfield'. 'Nepal'; and on the back with notes.

Lalitpur, the 'City of Beauty' was founded in the 2nd century by the Kirats and it remained a valley kingdom until the late 15th century when it became a sovereign state, together with Kathmandu and Bhaktapur. All three were built around Durbar Squares containing Palace and Temple complexes. The Krishna Mandir Temple, on the left in this image, was built in 1637 by Siddhi Narasingh Malla, who is said to have dreamt that Krishna and Radha, one of the incarnations of Vishnu and his consort, appeared in front of his palace and so he erected a temple on that spot. The interior is decorated with sculpted scenes of the Ramayana, a Hindu epic. The artist, Dr Oldfield, was Residency Surgeon at Kathmandu from 1850-1863. After his death his family published his two volume 'Sketches from Nipal, Historical and Descriptive...' (1880), which described life in the court of the Maharajah Jung Bahadur and also contained descriptions of Buddhist architecture, together with illustrations from Oldfield's own drawings.

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Abhinav Gaur

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Pashupatinath Temple Nepal, beautiful picture with fine details of plden age.

Wonderful highly appreciable work

Hope this survives now!!

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Beautiful!

Marvellous sketch !

Beautiful painting .We were there in 1987 ,how sad to see the destruction in n around it.

Great delighted we were there in 1993 Maharaja n Rani were everywhere in offices shops establishments Under them simple sweet Nepalese were happy there was peace everywhere What has happened to our younger brother Nepal is the only country where we feel being at home with nice people

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Seems to be very intriguing & fabulous

A factual history of the ancient Nepal!!!

Hi Kavas!! Thanks for sharing.Glad to note you are better.Take care.

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Wounderful rear books.Very nice collection.....

Athi sundar

Beautiful , visited Nepal twice , my sister was the Pakistan 's Ambassador

Then . What a beautiful place it was now reduced to rubble . Very sad .