id:			157317
accession number:	1994.18
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.18
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:18.774000

Photographic views of Ryakotta and other places in the Salem district, pl. IX: Avenue of the Banian Trees, Seringham, India, 1858. Captain Linnaeus Tripe (British, 1822–1902). Salted paper print, albumenized, from calotype negative; image: 24.6 x 37 cm (9 11/16 x 14 9/16 in.); matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust 1994.18

title:				Avenue of the Banian Trees, Seringham, India
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series:				Photographic views of Ryakotta and other places in the Salem district, pl. IX
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creation date:			1858
creation date earliest:		1858
creation date latest:		1858
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creditline:			The Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust
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culture:	England, 19th century
technique:	salted paper print, albumenized, 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  - publisher

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measurements: Image: 24.6 x 37 cm (9 11/16 x 14 9/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on recto: "J* / 15 x x C9"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	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).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'CMA, September 13 - November 27, 1994: "Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, Photographs," no exhibition catalogue.', 'opening_date': '1994-09-13T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, March 2 - July 17, 2002,"Travel Photography: Images of India". No catalog.', 'opening_date': '2002-03-02T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Harry Lunn, Ltd., New York, NY)
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: May 24, 1994
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 359
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IMAGES

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full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1994.18/1994.18_full.tif