Rangoon: Patent Slip

November 1855

Linnaeus Tripe

Artist, British, 1822 - 1902

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    albumen print

  • Credit Line

    Diana and Mallory Walker Fund

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 25.2 × 34.7 cm (9 15/16 × 13 11/16 in.)
    mount: 45.7 × 58 cm (18 × 22 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.87.8


Artwork history & notes

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

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on print in black ink: L. Tripe; printed in typeset on white paper adhered to mount, lower center beneath photograph in black ink: No. 100. Rangoon. Patent Slip. / In the government dockyard.

Markings

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

Wikidata ID

Q64157482


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