Rangoon. The Lake Plate 104: "Burma Views" (1857)

Object Name

Category

Photographs

Date

1855

Medium

albumen print from a waxed paper negative

Credit Line

Gift of Dr. Shashi B. Dewan and Janet E. Dewan, 2008

Object Number

2008/334

Location

Not currently on display but Available for viewing on Wednesdays from 1-4:30 in the Prints and Drawings Study Centre

Image: 25.3 x 33.5 cm (9 15/16 x 13 3/16 in.)
Mount: 44.8 × 57.5 cm (17 5/8 × 22 5/8 in.)

Signature

Signed on image in ink, BRC: L. Tripe

Markings

Recto: title label on mount, and "To the east of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, a park is to be formed around it; nature has already half completed it"