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Lieutenant Joseph Moore

This page represents most of our collection of original Antique prints of Burma. Please click on an image to see it in high-resolution, with details of the work itself.  For enquiries and purchases, please do contact us. 

Atumashi Monastery and Mahalawka Marazein (Kuthdaw Stupa): View from Mandalay hill before the fire of 1890.

Rangoon (Yangon): Shewdagon Paya. Looking North from the terrace with the artist sketching in the foreground.

Amarapura: View of the palace and King Mindon’s rare white elephant.

Burmese War Boat: Large villages were required to provide at least one war-boat with rowers to be ready for deployment on behalf of the crown.

Shwedagon Paya, Rangoon (Yangon): View from the upper terrace towards the South East with British soldiers felling trees in the foreground.

Bago: View of the temple Shwemawdaw (Golden Shrine) said to contain two hairs of Guatma Buddha.

Nyaung-U: View of Shwe-zayan (Shwezigon) Paya.

Pagan: North Eastern view of Gawdawpalin Temple.

Rangoon (Yangon): The British Army battling to gain the principle stockade. First Anglo Burmese War.

Pagan: View of a part of Sembyokoo Temple.

The Lord White Elephant of King Tharrawaddy Min at Amarapura.

Ummerapoora (Amarapura): View of the Imperial court at the new capital of King Bodawpaya.

Rangoon (Yangon): Looking South from the Eastern Road towards the Rangoon River.

Royal Golden Barge or Shoepaundogee. Drawn by Singey Bey, the Bengali artist who accompanied Symes.

Rangoon (Yangon): Pagoda Point. General Campbell and the Bombay Marines attacking the stockades in July. First Anglo Burmese War.

Lady and gentleman of the Kayn tribe in traditional dress.

Ava: Method of catching Wild Elephants. Drawn by Singey Bey, the Bengali artist who accompanied Symes

View of the Myitinge river from Myaliet (Pyagoon) Mountain.

Rangoon (Yangon): Landing of the combined forces of British Infantry, Bombay Marine and the East India Company’s private armies from Bengal and Madras. First Anglo-Burmese War.

Bagan: South Eastern view of Dhammayangyi Temple.

Rangoon: Great Dagon Pagoda as seen from the principal approach with the Bombay Marine in marching formation. First Anglo Burmese War.

The British Army in formation with the earliest depiction of a Congreve Rocket, developed By Sir William Congreve in 1804. First Anglo Burmese War.

Amrapura: Dragon Temple with cavalry and infantry.

Rangoon (Yangon): Shwedagon Pagoda, eastern face of the Gold Temple of Guadma.

Portraits of the notables of Amarapura.

Yenangyoung on the Irrawaddy (Ayearwady): View of the Oil wells.

Feet washing at an entrance to a monastery. After James Raeburn Middleton.

Waiting for the steamer on the banks of the Irrawaddy. After James Raeburn Middleton.

Pagan: View of Shewgugyi temple.

Rangoon (Yangon): Shwedagon Paya and Bell. Showing a substitute for the world’s heaviest bell, cast in 1484 and sunk in the Yangon during its theft by Portuguese mercenaries in 1608.

Member of the chief council and his wife in ceremonial dress.

Rangoon (Yangon): First Anglo Burmese War. British Army attacking the stockades with a company observer beneath an umbrella. First Anglo Burmese War.

Amarapura: View of the Royal Monastary, later moved to Mandalay and called Shwenandaw.

Kemmindine near Rangoon: The British Army storming the lesser stockade. First Anglo-Burmese War.

Cassay (Manipuri) Horseman drawn by Singey Bey, the Bengali artist who accompanied Symes.

Dalla on the Rangoon (Yangon River): Burning plain of Dalla with the British Fleet in the harbour including HMS Diana, the first steam-powered warship of the East India Company newly armed with Congreve rockets

Kioum: An example of a Burmese Buddhist temple and monastery.

Rangoon (Yangon): Shwedagon Pagoda, eastern face of the Gold Temple of Guadma.