Linnaeus Tripe

Lot 205: TRIPE, LINNAEUS.

Name: TRIPE, LINNAEUS.
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: 8e7f682aaa

Est: £40,000 GBP - £60,000 GBPSold:

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomNovember 15, 2011

Item Overview

Description

VIEWS OF BURMA. (NEGATIVES MADE AUGUST-NOVEMBER 1855; PRINTED JANUARY-NOVEMBER 1856)
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

Artist or Maker

Linnaeus Tripe

Literature

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)

Provenance

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

Auction Details

Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History

Sotheby's

November 15, 2011, 12:00 PM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK

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