Lanka Collection (page 6)

Upul Chandana Sri Lanka 09 May 1999 Date: 09 May 1999

Roshan Mahanama Sri Lanka 09 May 1999 Date: 09 May 1999

South Africa Watch The Replay Sri Lanka V South Africa 28 August 1998 Date: 28 August 1998

Romesh Kaluwitharana Sri Lanka 28 August 1998 Date: 28 August 1998

Sri Lanka Celebrate Loss Of South Africa Wicket 28 August 1998 Date: 28 August 1998

Sanath Jayasuriya Sri Lanka 28 August 1998 Date: 28 August 1998

Chandika Hathurusingha Sri Lanka 28 August 1998 Date: 28 August 1998

Suresh Perera Sri Lanka 28 August 1998 Date: 28 August 1998

Barry Dudleston Fixes Stumps Sri Lanka V South Africa 28 August 1998 Date: 28 August 1998

Pramodya Wickramasinghe Sri Lanka 28 August 1998 Date: 28 August 1998

Marvan Atapattu Sri Lanka 17 August 1998 Date: 17 August 1998

Chadika Hathurusingha Sri Lanka 17 August 1998 Date: 17 August 1998

Arjuna Ranatunga Sri Lanka 17 August 1998 Date: 17 August 1998

Kumara Dharmasena Sri Lanka 17 August 1998 Date: 17 August 1998

Muttiah Muralitharan Sri Lanka 17 August 1998 Date: 17 August 1998

Traditional Transportation - Covered Ox Cart - Colombo, Sri Lanka. Date: 1928

Late 19th century photograph: Boat on the lake, Kandy, Ceylon, Sri Lanka, Skeen studio

Late 19th century photograph: Temple, likely Kandy, Ceylon, Sri Lanka, Skeen studio

Late 19th century photograph: Workers picking tea, tea plantation, India or Ceylon, Sri Lanka

Late 19th century photograph: Temple, Ceylon, Sri Lanka, Skeen studio

c. 1880s Ceylon Sri Lanka - family selling food

Plantation workers picking tea, India or Ceylon, Sri Lanka
Vintage 19th century photograph:large group of plantation workers picking tea, India or Ceylon, Sri Lanka

The races of Ceylon, Sri Lanka
Vintage 19th century photograph: composite group of images of the races of Ceylon, Sri Lanka

Weighing tea, plantation, Ceylon, Sri Lanka
Vintage 19th century photograph: weighing tea on a tea plantation, Ceylon, Sri Lanka

Wharf and harbour at Colombo, Ceylon, Sri Lanka
c.1900 vintage photograph: wharf and harbour at Colombo, Ceylon, Sri Lanka

Giant bamboo, Ceylon, Sri Lanka
19th century vintage photograph: Giant bamboo, Ceylon, Sri Lanka

Women and children outside grass hut, Ceylon, Sri Lanka
19th century vintage photograph: women and children outside their grass hut, Ceylon, Sri Lanka

Procession of the tooth? Ceylon, Sri Lanka
19th century vintage photograph: Procession of the tooth, Kandy Esala Perahera, Ceylon, Sri Lanka

Huge crowd, ceremony, India or Ceylon, Sri Lanka
19th century vintage photograph: Huge crowd, ceremony, India or Ceylon, Sri Lanka

Temple of the Tooth, Kandy, Ceylon Sri Lanka
19th century vintage photograph: Temple of the Tooth, Kandy, Ceylon Sri Lanka

Galle Face Hotel, Ceylon, Sri Lanka
19th century vintage photograph: Galle Face Hotel, Ceylon, Sri Lanka

Man and woman of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 1818. The man smokes a tobacco pipe and holds a lance, the woman wears a short tunic dress and holds a basket of fruit

Man and woman of Goa, India, 1818. They wear headdresses with feathers, tunics and cloaks. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present being Descriptions of

Historical views of Asia Minor. Turkish pilgrims in a Hajj caravan over the desert to Mecca 1, Turks destroying Greek statues 2, and Achilles dragging the dead body of Hector outside Troy 3

Gomphia nitida, Gonfia lustra. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837

Amethystine python, Simalia amethistina
Amethystine python or scrub python, Simalia amethistina. Pitone amatistino. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, Cocoa Plantation, Sri Lanka
Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, Cocoa Plantation, Ceylon Sri Lanka. 1893

Ceylon crocodile var. from Seba. (Mugger crocodile, Crocodylus palustris or saltwater crocodile, Crocodylus porosus.) Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Heath after an illustration by George Shaw

Toque macaque, Macaca sinica. Endangered. Simia sinica Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jakob Samuel Walwerth after an illustration by Jacques de Seve from Johann Christian Daniel

Pitcher plant, Nepenthes distillatoria. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke after Thomas Shotter Boys from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1825

Rhynchoglossum notonianum (Klugia notoniana). Native to Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Dutchmans pipe, Aristolochia thwaitesii. Vulnerable. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Persian violet, Exacum macranthum. Critically endangered. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Plants of Sri Lanka: tamarind 1, sago palm 2, cassia 3 and teak 4. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Costume of a Singhalese woman in Sri Lanka. A man sheltering from the rain under a talipot palm leaf and a seated man drinking from a vase

Noble man of Sri Lanka, King Rajasinha II
A noble man of Sri Lanka, King Rajasinha II of Kandy, and a Tirinanxy or Chief Priest. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri after Robert Knox from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Toque macaque monkeys, breadfruit tree and talipot palm
Toque macaque monkeys, Macaca sinica (endangered) amid breadfruit trees, Artocarpus altilis, and talipot palm, Corypha umbraculifera, in Sri Lanka

Pitcher plant, Nepenthes distillatoria, native to Sri Lanka. Vulnerable. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes

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