No. 23. Pugahm Myo [Pagan]. Figures in Damayangyee Pagoda [Dhamma-yan-gyi].
1855, printed 1856
![No. 23. Pugahm Myo [Pagan]. Figures in Damayangyee Pagoda [Dhamma-yan-gyi]. by Linnaeus Tripe](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.artheonmuseum.org%2Faic%2Fthumb%2Fno-23-pugahm-myo-pagan-figures-in-damayangyee-aic-216582.webp&w=3840&q=75)
Medium
Salted paper print, from the album "Burma Views" (1857)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 26.8 × 33.4 cm (10 9/16 × 13 3/16 in.); Mount: 45.6 × 58.3 cm (18 × 23 in.)
Classification
photograph
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
216582
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Linnaeus Tripe produced some of the earliest photographs ever made of British India and Burma. The British ruled large parts of India through the East India Company, a corporation with its own private armies and governmental functions. Tripe rose through the ranks of the Company’s army and began to experiment with photography in the early 1850s, photographing temples and other Indian monuments. In 1855, James Broun-Ramsay, the British governor general of India, commissioned him to join a diploma...
About the Artist
Linnaeus Tripe · 1822–1902
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...