Photographic views in Tanjore and Trivady. By Captain L. Tripe, Government Photographer, Madras Presidency. With descriptive notes, by the Rev. G. U. Pope. Photographer(s): Tripe, Linnaeus
Tanjore Fort, the wall and ditch. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking along the wall and moat. Albumen print, 354 x 260 mm. Subjects = forts; printed books; Tripe, 'Photographic views of Tanjore and Trivady' (1858)
Sivaji's Statue [in the Nayaka Palace, Thanjavur.]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the statue of Raja Sivaji, here credited to Chantrey, but in fact by Flaxman. See note at Photo 212/4 (35). Subjects = European sculpture; printed books; statues; Tripe, 'Photographic views of Tanjore and Trivady' (1858)
The seven storied tower of the Palace [Thanjavur]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking obliquely along the street façade of the building seen at the left of print 3: 'The tower seen from a distance has a very fine effect, but this is destroyed by a nearer view. It is a striking mixture of squalor and magnificence...It is a curious mix...
The Palace and interjacent part of the town [Thanjavur]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking over rooftops towards the Palace: 'It covers a vast extent of ground, and like most other buildings of the kind in India affords the strongest contrasts on every side between rude magnificance and the most squalid misery...The lofty erection...
Great Pagoda from the Fort glacis [Brihadishvara Temple, Thanjavur]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the gopuras of the Brihadishvara Temple. Clouds painted onto negative. Albumen print, 355 x 254 mm. Subjects = gopuras; Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Hindu); printed books; temples; Tripe, 'Photographic views of Tanjore and Tri...