Amerapoora: Ooh-nein Gate of the City, September 1-October 21, 1858

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portfolio Title

plate 69, _Burma Views_ (1857)

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 26.5 × 34.2 cm (10 7/16 × 13 7/16 in.)
mount: 45.5 × 58.1 cm (17 15/16 × 22 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Stephen G. Stein Fund

Accession Number

2012.87.4

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. 69. Amerapoora. Ooh-nein Gate of the City. / There are twelve gates to the wall of the city, three on each side. The above gate is the centre one on the East side.

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.