Rangoon: North Entrance to the Shwe Dagon Pagoda
November 1855
Artist, British, 1822 - 1902
Linnaeus Tripe
Attributed to

Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 25.9 × 35 cm (10 3/16 × 13 3/4 in.)
mount: 45.7 × 58.3 cm (18 × 22 15/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2012.87.1
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 left on print in black ink: L Tripe; printed in typeset on white paper adhered to mount, lower center beneath photograph in black ink: No. 109. Rangoon. North Entrance to the Shwe Dagon Pagoda. / This was stockaded when the Pagoda was held by us against the Burmese.
Markings
artist’s blindstamp on mount, upper center: BY THEE I DRAW
Wikidata ID
Q64157485