Rangoon: Near View of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda
November 1855
Artist, British, 1822 - 1902

Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 34.5 × 27.2 cm (13 9/16 × 10 11/16 in.)
mount: 58.4 × 45.7 cm (23 × 18 in.) -
Accession
2012.87.18
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. 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£.
Markings
artist’s blindstamp on mount, upper center: BY THEE I DRAW
Wikidata ID
Q64157486