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Linnaeus Tripe

( British, 1822 - 1902 )

Views Of Burma.

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Materials:

120 albumen prints from waxed paper negatives

Size Notes:

average, or the reverse; panoramas (252 x 584mm.), card (455 x 585mm.)

Description:

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Markings:

nearly all signed by Tripe in the image in ink, each mount with Tripe's "By Thee I Draw" blindstamp (Dewan p.141, fig.1), and numbered letterpress caption (nos. 64, 76, 79 and 99 numbered by hand), no.117 with additional description added by hand

Condition:

no.2 slightly dust-soiled, corner of mount of no.48 creased (not affecting image), left panel of one panorama (no.105) detached (but present), portfolio rather faded and worn

Literature:

Dewan, J. The Photographs of Linnaeus Tripe. A Catalogue Raisonné. (Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2003); Taylor, R. Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007)

Provenance:

Presented to James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1812-1860), Governor-General of India (1848-1856); thence by descent to the present owner

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