Artist
Linnaeus Tripe(British, 1822–1902)British, 1822–1902
CultureBritish
Titles
- The Ghats at Trivady
- plate 22, "Photographic views in Tanjore and Trivady"
Date1858
PlaceIndia
MediumAlbumen silver print from paper negative
DimensionsImage: 10 × 14 3/16 in. (25.4 × 36 cm)
Sheet: 10 × 14 3/16 in. (25.4 × 36 cm)
Mount: 17 5/8 × 22 1/2 in. (44.7 × 57.2 cm)
Sheet: 10 × 14 3/16 in. (25.4 × 36 cm)
Mount: 17 5/8 × 22 1/2 in. (44.7 × 57.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2004.747
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
Exposé
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Department
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
As an official photographer in the British colonial service in India, Linnaeus Tripe traveled through Southeast India in 1857–58 with a mandate to document sites “that are interesting to the Antiquary, Architect, Sculptor, Mythologist and Historian,” while also noting that, “the Picturesque may be allowed perhaps, supplementally.” It was surely that artistic impulse that led Tripe to fill the sky above the ghats, or sacred bathing places, at Trivady (Triviar) with clouds painted on his photographic negative.
ProvenanceEx-collection Newberry Library, Chicago; Weston Gallery, Carmel.
Bought by Manfred Heiting from Weston Gallery, Carmel, on 3/23/1983.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Embossed seal, mount recto, centered below image: LT
Printed on applied sticker, mount recto, top right corner above image: 22
[no verso inscriptions]
Printed on applied sticker, mount recto, top right corner above image: 22
[no verso inscriptions]
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