Rangoon: Near View of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, November 1855

Not on View

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 34.5 × 27.2 cm (13 9/16 × 10 11/16 in.)
mount: 58.4 × 45.7 cm (23 × 18 in.)

Credit Line

Edward J. Lenkin Fund

Accession Number

2012.87.18

Artists / Makers

Linnaeus Tripe (artist) British, 1822 - 1902

Image Use

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Inscription

signed by artist, lower right in ink on print: L. Tripe; typeset in black ink on white paper label affixed to mount, lower center: No. 115. Near View of the Pagoda. / Taken from the N.W. corner of the Platform. The scaffolding of bamboo, so much like basketwork, was put up by the Burmese to enable them to regild the Pagoda; an operation which will cost them about 15,000£.

Marks and Labels

artist’s blindstamp on mount, upper center: BY THEE I DRAW

Provenance

Linnaeus Tripe [1822-1902]; presented to James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie [1812-1860], Governor-General of India [1848-1856], February 1857; by descent to the Broun-Ramsay family; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 May 2012, part of lot 211); NGA purchase (through Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc., New York), 2012.

Associated Names

Kraus, Jr., Inc., Hans P.