The Ceylon Plates
Collection / Architecture
Arcaded corner front of the Grand Oriental Hotel. Fort, Colombo.
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Architecture

Arcaded corner front of the Grand Oriental Hotel

Fort, Colombo
1880

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Named on the print, matched to a published caption, an unmistakable landmark, or identified by the collection’s owner.
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Visual identification; place and date compared with Lankapura captions
Place
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Reference
TCP-A13

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