The Pagoda Platform (Primary Title)
Burmese and First Inidan Set (Set Title)
Ernest Stephen Lumsden, English, 1883–1948 (Artist)
Ernest Stephen Lumsden, English, 1883–1948 (Printer)
The first port of call on Lumsden’s initial trip to southern Asia was Rangoon. Colonized after three Anglo-Burmese wars that began in 1824, the whole of Burma was administered as a province of British India from 1886 to 1937. This view is the first of several Lumsden captured at the country’s most sacred and famous Buddhist site: Shwedagon Pagoda. From an elevated vantage, perhaps on a lower terrace of the enormous reliquary mound, he depicts one of the elaborate, multiroofed structures built on the vast hilltop enclosure’s platform. Tall palms accentuate the structure’s soaring spire.
ed. 30
Signed in graphite "Lumsden imp" at bottom center along plate line.
Possible unknown collector's mark at left lower corner recto "V"(?). Not in Lugt.
Title inscribed in graphite by unknown hand on recto.
Gift of Frank Raysor
Light and Line: E. S. Lumsden's Visions of India, VMFA South Asian Galleries, April 11, 2016 - April 4, 2017
Copley, John. “The Later Etchings of E. S. Lumsden”, The Print Collector’s Quarterly, July 1936. Includes a chronological list, 1905-1935, compiled by E. S. Lumsden.
©artist or artist’s estate
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