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accession number:	1987.218
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updated:		2025-06-10 11:10:07.620000

Great Pagoda, Great Bull, Front View, Tanjore, India (Rajarajeshvara Temple), plate 12 from Photographic Views of Tanjore and Trivady (Madras: Madras Presidency), 1857. Captain Linnaeus Tripe (British, 1822–1902). 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 (Rajarajeshvara Temple), plate 12 from Photographic Views of Tanjore and Trivady (Madras: Madras Presidency)
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creation date:			1857
creation date earliest:		1857
creation date latest:		1857
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	England
technique:	salted paper print from calotype negative
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - British 19th Century
type:		Photograph
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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

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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.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "The Great Bull of Tangore"; "IC25"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1987
	opening date:   1988-02-24T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1987</i>. 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
	<i>Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. 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
	<i>Travel Photography: Early Images of India</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 2-July 17, 2002).

	title:		Indian Gallery 242b Rotation – November 2017-April 2018
	opening date:   2017-11-10T05:00:00
	<i>Indian Gallery 242b Rotation – November 2017-April 2018</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 10, 2017-April 16, 2018).

	title:		Temples and Worship in South Asia
	opening date:   2024-09-14T04:00:00
	<i>Temples and Worship in South Asia</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14, 2024-March 9, 2025).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Stephen White Gallery of Photography, Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1987
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1987–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1986.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 74, no. 2 (February 1987): 38–79.
	page number: 	p. 67, no. 95
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159974

	Hinson, Tom E. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 360
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