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Photo 951

Record Id:

032-003232458

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003232458

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100026867737.0x000bfe

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 951

Title:

Photographic views of Ryakotta and other places, in the Salem District. By Captain L. Tripe, Government Photographer, Madras Presidency. With descriptive notes, by J. A. C. Boswell, Esq. M. C. S. 1858. Photographer(s): Tripe, Linnaeus

Scope & Content:

Imprint: [Madras, 1860.]

Large folio volume measuring 457 x 570 mm in modern brown buckram binding, with letterpress titlepage and contents page, and nine prints laid down onto pages impressed with Tripe's drystamp (initial 'T.L.' within strap reading 'Government Photographer', surmounted by sun with human face). Each print has a small letterpress number label pasted next to the the top right corner. The list of views provides a few paragraphs of description of each photograph. The volume is one of a series of publications issued between 1859-60 from Tripe's work as Government Photographer to the Madras Presidency (the complete series comprises Photo 950-958).

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

10 items

Digitised Content:

Languages:

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Scripts:

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Start Date:

1857

End Date:

1858

Date Range:

1857-1858

Era:

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Exhibitions:

Captain Linneaus Tripe of India and Burma, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 18 February 2015 - 25 May 2015

Material Type:

Photographs

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Notes:

Linnaeus Tripe, Royacottah, Gate of the Hill Fort, 1858. Exhibited: Captain Linneaus Tripe of India and Burma, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 18 February 2015 - 25 May 2015

Names:

Boswell, John Alexander Corrie