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Linnaeus Tripe Photographs of India
Summary
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2017.06
- Creators:
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Tripe, Linnaeus
- Dates:
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circa 1856-1858
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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4 Printsalbumenized salt paper
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of three photographs on 2 disaggregated album pages and 1 loose print: 1. Album page with two mounted salt prints showing Elliot marbles from Amaravati. Album page: 45 x 33 cm.; print 1: 16.7 x 19 cm; print 2: 19.7 x 19 cm. 2. Album page with one mounted albumenized salt print showing Elliot marble stupa relief from Amaravati. Album page: 45 x 33cm.; print: 25.5 x 24 cm. 3. Unmounted albumenized salt print, Facade of the West Side of the Nayakar Durbar Hall, Tanjore. 28 x 37.7 cm.
Arrangement
Arrangement
One flat box.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
Linnaeus Tripe (1822-1902) was an official photographer for the British Government, employed to document Southern Indian archaeological remains before they further decayed. He photographed widely in southern India, including Rayakottai (Ryakotta), which was then a British stronghold. Around 1858 Tripe took this image of sculptures from the ruined Buddhist stupa at Amaravati, which was a large monument built approximately 2000 years ago in what is now Andhra Pradesh. The stupa was a mound-like structure made of brick, adorned with bas-relief medallions, paneled friezes made of limestone and freestanding sculpture. As time passed, the stupa fell into disrepair and was eventually buried under rubble. Eventually, the structure was excavated and some of the decorative elements were shipped to the British Museum, London. These pieces were referred to as the 'Elliot marbles' after Walter Elliot, the antiquarian, linguist and member of the Madras Council who recovered them.
Administration
Custodial History
Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro, 2001.
Digital Content
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Preferred Citation
Linnaeus Tripe Photographs of India, FSA A2017.06. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
More Information
Local Numbers
Local Numbers
FSA A2017.06
Keywords
Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
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Tombs -- India | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Buddhist sculpture -- India -- Amaravati | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Amaravati (India) -- Antiquities | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Monuments | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
India | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Tanjore (India) | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Photographs | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Salted paper prints | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
India -- Andhra Pradesh -- Amaravati | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
National Museum of Asian Art Archives
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