Rangoon: North Entrance to the Shwe Dagon Pagoda
Linnaeus Tripe
November 1855
Medium
albumen print
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.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Stephen G. Stein Fund
Accession Number
2012.87.1
About the Artist
Linnaeus Tripe
Linnaeus Tripe (1822–1902), born in Devonport, England, as the ninth of twelve children to Mary and Cornelius Tripe, pursued a military career influenced by his sister Emily's marriage to an army colonel. Joining the East India Company's Madras Infantry as a cadet in 1838, he rose to lieutenant in southern India by 1840 and captain in Bangalore by 1854. Extended leave in England from 1850 due to i...