Amerapoora: Palace of the White Elephant, September 1-October 21, 1855

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portfolio Title

Plate 73 from _Burma Views_ (1857).

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 26 x 34.3 cm (10 1/4 x 13 1/2 in.)
mount: 45.6 x 58.3 cm (17 15/16 x 22 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

New Century Fund

Accession Number

2010.113.1

Artists / Makers

Linnaeus Tripe (artist) British, 1822 - 1902

Image Use

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Inscription

under image on paper label pasted to mount in typeset print: No. 73 Amerapoora. Palace of the White Elephant. / The white Elephant is the same Crawford saw in 1826; it is now fifty years old: it has its guards, four white and eight gold Umbrellas, Officers of state, Regalia, &c., &c.

Provenance

(Robert Hershkowitz, Ltd., Sussex); NGA purchase, 2010.

Associated Names

Hershkowitz, Ltd., Robert