Indonesia.- Hindu temple.- [Cephas (Kassian, photographer)] Photografifen van Tjandi Brambanan [Candi Parambanan], 60 albumen print photographs printed in sepia, each mounted to larger sheet of stiff card, a few captioned and dated April 1895 in the negative, many numbered in the negative (not sequentially), occasional light surface soiling, mount edges browned, loose in original cloth-backed board portfolio, printed paper label to spine (chipped), rubbed and worn, remains of one tie but other lacking, joints split but covers holding, photographs c.160 x 210mm., mounts 245 x 330mm., [c.1895].

⁂ Candi Parambanan is the largest Hindu temple of central Java, constructed to mark the return to power of the Sanjaya Dynasty (a Hindu dynasty) after nearly a century of dominance by the Sailendra (a Buddhist dynasty). Pioneering Indonesian photographer Kassian Cephas was responsible for the pictorial documentation of the excavation of the site in the late 19th century.