id: 153706 accession number: 1987.218 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.218 updated: 2019-06-03 10:17:59.393000 Great Pagoda, Great Bull, Front View, Tanjore, India (Rajarajesvara Temple), 1857. Captain Linnaeus Tripe (British, 1822-1902), Madras Presidency. Salted paper print from calotype negative; image: 27.2 x 38 cm (10 11/16 x 14 15/16 in.); paper: 28 x 39.1 cm (11 x 15 3/8 in.); matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1987.218 title: Great Pagoda, Great Bull, Front View, Tanjore, India (Rajarajesvara Temple) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1857 creation date earliest: 1857 creation date latest: 1857 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: England, 19th century technique: salted paper print from calotype negative department: Photography collection: PH - British 19th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Captain Linnaeus Tripe (British, 1822-1902) - artist Captain Linnaeus Tripe British, 1822-1902 Born in Davenport, Linnaeus Tripe was an officer in the 12th Regiment Native Infantry at Bangalore who learned photography while on furlough in England between 1851-54. In 1855 he was appointed photographer to a British mission in Burma, where he produced more than 120 views subsequently published by the Madras Photographic Society in Bangalore (1857). For four years, beginning in 1856, he was government photographer to the Madras presidency. Six volumes with more than 100 images of various cities in Madras (now Tamil Nadu) were later published. Like other expeditionary photographers, Tripe documented the landscape, culture, and architecture he encountered. His particular views are valued not only for their factual content, but also for Tripe's soft, almost romantic interpretation of his subjects. Rising through the military ranks during his career, Tripe retired to England as an honorary major general in 1875. He continued to photograph for his own pleasure. T.W.F. * Madras Presidency - published by --- measurements: Image: 27.2 x 38 cm (10 11/16 x 14 15/16 in.); Paper: 28 x 39.1 cm (11 x 15 3/8 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "The Great Bull of Tangore"; "IC25" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1987 opening date: 1988-02-24T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988). title: Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1996-11-24T05:00:00 Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997). title: Travel Photography: Early Images of India opening date: 2002-03-02T00:00:00 Travel Photography: Early Images of India. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 2-July 17, 2002). title: Indian Gallery 242b Rotation – November 2017 opening date: 2017-11-10T05:00:00 Indian Gallery 242b Rotation – November 2017. The Cleveland Museum of Art (November 10, 2017-April 16, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, February 24 - April 17, 1988: "Year in Review 1987," CMA Bulletin, 75 (February 1988), p. 67, no. 95.
CMA, November 20, 1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art."
CMA, March 2 - July 17, 2002. "Travel Photography: Images of India". no exhibition catalogue. --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Active in Burma and India during the late 1850s, Linneaus Tripe was a professional soldier and official photographer for the Madras Presidency in India from 1856 to 1860. More than 100 of his photographs of India were published in a series of six volumes classified according to the seven urban areas of the presidency. In this dramatic photograph of the sacred Great Bull, Tripe also documented the surrounding landscape and temple which, when built, was one of the largest buildings in South Asia. Created with the paper negative process, Tripe's image demonstrates his skillful use of the medium to record a dynamic perspective and a rich variety of shape, texture, and light. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.218/1987.218_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.218/1987.218_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.218/1987.218_full.tif