Lot 204: TRIPE, LINNAEUS.

VIEWS OF BURMA. (NEGATIVES MADE AUGUST-NOVEMBER 1855; PRINTED JANUARY-NOVEMBER 1856)
134 albumen prints from waxed paper negatives (average 267 x 345mm., or the reverse), including two 2-part folding panoramas (252 x 584mm.), nearly all signed by Tripe in the lower right corner of the image in ink, individually mounted on card (447 x 578mm.), preserved loose (as issued) in the original presentation portfolio of blue half morocco gilt over marbled boards, upper cover titled in gilt "Photographic Memorial of the Embassy to Amarapoora in 1855," occasional light spotting to mounts and to a few images, two portfolio flaps detached, binding rubbed

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 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