Amerapoora: Portico of the Residency, September 1-October 21, 1855

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portfolio Title

plate 38, _Burma Views_ (1857)

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 26 × 34.8 cm (10 1/4 × 13 11/16 in.)
mount: 45.6 × 58.3 cm (17 15/16 × 22 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Edward J. Lenkin Fund

Accession Number

2012.87.25

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. 38. Amerapoora. Portico of the Residency. / This covered a square of ninety feet having a dome-like roof of thatched bamboo, and closed on the outer side by a Poscenium for Marionettes, draperied with blue cloth laced with gold and silver. In this / portico, the ground being the stage, were performed pu-es (the Burmese opera) for the amusement of the members of the mission.

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.