Rangoon: Near View of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda
Linnaeus Tripe
November 1855
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 34.5 × 27.2 cm (13 9/16 × 10 11/16 in.) mount: 58.4 × 45.7 cm (23 × 18 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Edward J. Lenkin Fund
Accession Number
2012.87.18
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...