Tripe, Linnaeus.

36 albumen prints from waxed paper negatives (267 x 345mm., or the reverse), nearly all signed by Tripe in the lower right corner of the image in ink, individually mounted on card (447 x 578mm.), occasional light spotting to mounts and to a few images

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

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)

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Rare photographs of Burma, presented to the 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, the Governor General of India who sent Tripe on the diplomatic mission to Burma. This set includes 3 prints not issued with the later sets of 120 prints and were previously only known from the surviving negatives. The only other prints of these 3 photographs are in the portfolio of 134 prints (see previous lot).

This set of 36 photographs was sent in the portfolio of 134 prints for Lord Dalhousie and had originally been intended for Captain Yule, however a surviving memoranda notes that Yule never received them and Tripe made another set of 39 prints for Yule. (Memoranda transcribed in Dewan p.37)

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