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Title: Urbain Basset views of Angkor
Date (inclusive): 1896-1898
Number: 96.R.127
Creator/Collector:
Basset, Urbain, 1842-1924
Physical Description:
34 photographic prints
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
Business Number: (310) 440-7390
Fax Number: (310) 440-7780
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
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Abstract: A collection of photographic prints
documenting the temple complexes of Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom, including the Bayon temple,
as they appeared in the mid-1890s.
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Language: Collection material is in
French.
French sculptor and amateur photographer, Urbain Basset (1842 Grenoble, France-1924 La
Tronche, France), was sent to Cambodia by the French government to make casts of the relief
sculptures at Angkor.
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Urbain Basset views of Angkor, 1896-1898, Getty Research Institute, Research Library,
Accession no. 96.R.127
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa96r127
Acquired in 1996.
Processed and cataloged by Beth Ann Guynn; finding aid encoded by Holly Larson with grant
funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Guynn updated the
finding aid in 2021.
The collection was digitized by the repository in 2023 and the images are available
online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/96r127
Scope and Content of Collection
The 34 albumen photographs by Urbain Bassett document the temple complexes of Angkor Wat
and Angkor Thom, including the Bayon temple, as they appeared in the mid-1890s. Included are
exterior and interior views of the temples, and details of the relief sculpture and
decorations. Four photographs show freestanding sculpture in situ or in storage areas. There
is one photograph of a Lieutenant Dubose posed with the members of the French documentary
expedition in front of the entrance to Angkor Wat. Another image shows thatched huts lining
the entrance to Angkor. Also included is a image of a group of monks seated in a hallway of
the palace of Norodum, king of Cambodia.
Titles are devised by the cataloger except where noted.
Arranged in a single series: . Series I. Urbain Basset views of Angkor, 1896-1898
Buddhist temples -- Cambodia -- Angkor (Extinct city)
Angkor Wat (Angkor)
Bayon (Angkor)
Angkor (Extinct city) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Cambodia -- Antiquities
Cambodia -- Description and travel -- History -- 19th
century
Albumen prints -- Cambodia -- 19th century
Basset, Urbain, 1842-1924