No. 8. Ye-nan-gyoung [Yenangyaung]. Kyoung.
1855
![No. 8. Ye-nan-gyoung [Yenangyaung]. Kyoung. by Linnaeus Tripe](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.artheonmuseum.org%2Faic%2Fthumb%2Fno-8-ye-nan-gyoung-yenangyaung-kyoung-aic-216581.webp&w=3840&q=75)
Medium
Salted paper print, from the album "Views of Burma" (1856)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 26 × 34.8 cm (10 1/4 × 13 3/4 in.); Mount: 45.6 × 58.3 cm (18 × 23 in.)
Classification
photograph
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
216581
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Linnaeus Tripe produced some of the earliest photographs of British India and Burma ever made. 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 army, and began to experiment with photography in the early 1850s, photographing temples and other Indian monuments. In 1855, James Broun-Ramsay, Governor General of India, commissioned him to join a diplomatic mission t...
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...