Pillars in the Recessed Portico in the Roya Gopuram with the Base of One of the Four Sculptured Monoliths, Madura

Linnaeus Tripe

January–March 1858

Pillars in the Recessed Portico in the Roya Gopuram with the Base of One of the Four Sculptured Monoliths, Madura by Linnaeus Tripe

Medium

Albumen silver print from waxed paper negative

Dimensions

Image: 35.8 x 30.2 cm (14 1/8 x 11 7/8 in.) Mount: 45.3 x 57.5 cm (17 13/16 x 22 5/8 in.)

Classification

Photographs

Department

Photographs

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gilman Collection, Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 2005

Accession Number

2005.100.381.1.9

Tags

Architecture

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...

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