![No. 8. Ye-nan-gyoung [Yenangyaung]. Kyoung., by Linnaeus Tripe, 1855](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/21bdeb29-71e0-6b3d-6409-3a7af3c5a5e1/full/!1600,1600/0/default.jpg)
No. 8. Ye-nan-gyoung [Yenangyaung]. Kyoung.
Linnaeus Tripe (English, 1822–1902)
1855
- Medium
- Salted paper print, from the album "Views of Burma" (1856)
- Classification
- Photograph
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 26 × 34.8 cm (10 1/4 × 13 3/4 in.); Mount: 45.6 × 58.3 cm (18 × 23 in.)
- Culture
- England
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Photography and Media
- Credit line
- Smart Family Acquisition Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
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 to Burma as its official photographer to document architecture and points of interest. Over the course of several months, Tripe produced over 200 waxed paper negatives, selecting 120 for albums for the colonial government of India; this print is from an album that remained, until recently, with the Broun-Ramsay family. When the complete series was exhibited in 1857, the jury called the photographs “excellent; remarkable for great distinctness and also for their unusual and beautiful tint.”
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
