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Amerapoora: West Gate of the Residency Enclosure

September 1–October 21, 1855
Not on view
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.
Tripe made nearly one hundred negatives at Amerapoora. He published many of them in his Burma portfolio, sequencing them as if he were taking Lord Dalhousie and the directors of the East India Company on a tour of the capital, beginning here with the residency compound King Mindon built for the British and proceeding into the center of the city.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Amerapoora: West Gate of the Residency Enclosure
  • Artist: Linnaeus Tripe (British, Devonport (Plymouth Dock) 1822–1902 Devonport)
  • Date: September 1–October 21, 1855
  • Dimensions: image: 25.4 × 33.5 cm (10 × 13 3/16 in.)
    mount: 45.5 × 58.3 cm (17 15/16 × 22 15/16 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Edward J. Lenkin Fund
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs