Lot 203: TRIPE, LINNAEUS.

MYSORE VIEWS. (NEGATIVES MADE DECEMBER 1854; PRINTED 1855)
56 albumen prints from waxed paper negatives (average 268 x 347mm., or the reverse), including one 2-part folding panorama (252 x 646mm.), nearly all signed by Tripe in ink on the lower right corner of the image, each mounted on card (424 x 558mm.), each mount with Tripe's "By Thee I Draw" blindstamp (Dewan p.141, fig.1), letterpress captions pasted on the mount, each numbered in ink from 1 to 57 (excluding no.43), some spotting and occasional slight fading, the panorama with some surface wear and creasing, a few minor creases or short tears to mounts

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)

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