No. 8, Ye-nan-gyoung, Kyoung
Former TitleDe-nan Gyoung, Kyoung (#8)
Artist
Captain Linnaeus Tripe
(English, 1822 - 1902)
Date1855
MediumSalt print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 10 7/16 × 13 9/16 inches (26.51 × 34.45 cm)
Mount: 18 × 23 inches (45.72 × 58.42 cm)
Mount: 18 × 23 inches (45.72 × 58.42 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2007.17.31
SignedSigned on image recto, lower right corner, in black ink: "L.Tripe"
InscribedOn mount recto, bottom center, in black type: "No. 8. Denan-gyoung. Kyoung. / This monastery is a fine specimen of provincial architecture."
Markingsnone
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DescriptionImage of a building with four levels - each with a curved, elaborate roofline. A hillside cuts diagonally across the right side of the photograph.Gallery LabelThis photograph depicts a Buddhist monastery in Burma (now Myanmar). Captain Linnaeus Tripe served as official photographer to the British Colonial Government in India in the 1850s. He documented the diplomatic mission to Burma in 1855, two years after a war that had ended with the country ceding land to British India. Tripe used a large-format camera to make landscape and architectural views like this. His photographs were remarkably consistent, considering the challenges that the region’s heat fluctuations and humidity posed to his materials.
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Captain Linnaeus Tripe
January-February 1858
2017.68.259
