Rangoon: Great Bell of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda
Linnaeus Tripe
November 1855
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 26.83 × 34.93 cm (10 9/16 × 13 3/4 in.) mount: 53.98 × 60.96 cm (21 1/4 × 24 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
1995.36.119
Rights
Public Domain
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...