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The image shows an architectural structure in a landscape. The horizon is high with a sky filled with clouds. The structure has multiple tiers, intricate spires, and carved facades. It extends horizontally beyond a grassy area. Vegetation with a wooden fence is in the foreground. The color palette is monochromatic, emphasizing textures and forms with a vintage, grainy style. The tones are muted, giving the scene a timeless and serene quality.
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The image shows an architectural structure in a landscape. The horizon is high with a sky filled with clouds. The structure has multiple tiers, intricate spires, and carved facades. It extends horizontally beyond a grassy area. Vegetation with a wooden fence is in the foreground. The color palette is monochromatic, emphasizing textures and forms with a vintage, grainy style. The tones are muted, giving the scene a timeless and serene quality.

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

Amerapoora: Ouk Kyoung

Linnaeus Tripe

Date
September 1–October 21, 1855
Medium
albumen silver print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 25.2 × 34.5 cm (9 15/16 × 13 9/16 in.) mount: 45.4 × 58.4 cm (17 7/8 × 23 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
2012.87.23
Credit line
Edward J. Lenkin Fund
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CPH
Original NGA record Wikidata

Portfolio and series

Series
Burma Views

Subjects and terms

  • architecture
  • British
  • salted paper print
  • Religion
  • Monastery
  • Burma
  • Spire
  • Shrine
Provenance

Linnaeus Tripe [1822-1902]; presented to James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie [1812-1860], Governor-General of India [1848-1856], February 1857; by descent to the Broun-Ramsay family; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 May 2012, part of lot 211); NGA purchase (through Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc., New York), 2012.

Inscription

signed by artist, lower right on print in black ink: L. Tripe; printed in typeset on white paper adhered to mount, lower center beneath photograph in black ink: No. 67. Amerapoora. Ouk Kyoung. / This, as its name signifies, is built of brick (ouk.)

Marks

artist’s blindstamp on mount, upper center: BY THEE I DRAW

NGA object ID 159343. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.