id:			384221
accession number:	2020.210
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.210
updated:		2022-01-04 18:13:18.855000

West and South Sides of the Vimana Walls, Great Temple, Thanjavur, 1858. Captain Linnaeus Tripe (British, 1822-1902). Albumenized salt print from a waxed paper negative; image: 27.4 x 36 cm (10 13/16 x 14 3/16 in.); paper: 27.4 x 36 cm (10 13/16 x 14 3/16 in.); mounted: 45.3 x 57.3 cm (17 13/16 x 22 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2020.210

title:				West and South Sides of the Vimana Walls, Great Temple, Thanjavur
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creation date:			1858
creation date earliest:		1858
creation date latest:		1858
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	England, 19th century
technique:	albumenized salt print from a waxed paper negative
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - British 19th Century
type:		Photograph
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catalogue raisonne: Dewan: CR6-219

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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.
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measurements: Image: 27.4 x 36 cm (10 13/16 x 14 3/16 in.); Paper: 27.4 x 36 cm (10 13/16 x 14 3/16 in.); Mounted: 45.3 x 57.3 cm (17 13/16 x 22 9/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Imprinted in black type on white paper adhered to recto of mount: "15"
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	inscription:	Embossed on recto of mount: "LT/Photographer to Government"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Newberry Library Collection, Chicago, IL
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	(Sotheby's, New York, NY)
	date: October 31, 1989
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	(Weston Gallery, Carmel, CA)
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	Private Collection, United Kingdom
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	(Prahlad Bubbar Indian and Islamic Art, London, United Kingdom)
	date: 2020
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: September 14, 2020
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fun fact: 
This is thought to have been the tallest structure in the world when it was constructed around 1000.

digital description: 
This granite structure is part of one of the largest and most important examples of South Indian temple architecture and continues to this day as an active place of worship. Each niche contains a sculpted figure, and inscriptions run all around its base. It is dedicated to Shiva, one of three primary gods of Hinduism, whose followers recognize him as the ultimate deity who creates, preserves, and destroys everything in the entire universe.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Dewan, Janet, and Linnaeus Tripe. The Photographs of Linnaeus Tripe: A Catalogue Raisonné. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2003.
	page number: 	CR6-219
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IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.210/2020.210_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.210/2020.210_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.210/2020.210_full.tif