Central Museum Madras: Group 27
May–June 1858
Medium
Albumen silver print from dry collodion on glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 25.8 x 23.2 cm (10 3/16 x 9 1/8 in.) Mount: 45.1 x 33 cm (17 3/4 x 13 in.) Mat: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Rubel Collection, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace and Richard and Ronay Menschel Gifts, 1997
Accession Number
1997.382.61
Tags
About the Artist
Linnaeus Tripe
Linnaeus Tripe (1822–1902), born in Devonport, England, as the ninth of twelve children to Mary and Cornelius Tripe, pursued a military career influenced by his sister Emily's marriage to an army colonel. Joining the East India Company's Madras Infantry as a cadet in 1838, he rose to lieutenant in southern India by 1840 and captain in Bangalore by 1854. Extended leave in England from 1850 due to i...