Shwemawdaw Pagoda or Golden God Temple, Bago, Myanmar. Schomadu or the Golden Temple at Pegu, Burma. Copied from Michael Symes' An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, 1800. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1810. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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