Captain Linnaeus Tripe
Photographs of the Elliot Marbles: and Other Subjects; in the Central Museum, Madras
Captain Linnaeus Tripe's comprehensive photographic album documents the Elliot Marbles and other subjects in the Central Museum, Madras, created in 1858. The collection comprises 75 albumenized salt prints mounted across 51 pages, accompanied by government authentication stamps. The album is an important historical record of Indian sculpture and Tripe's pioneering work as a government photographer.
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- Madras, India, 1858. An album containing 75 albumenized salt prints mounted to 51 pages, all but one page with Tripe’s ‘Photographer to Government’ blindstamp, and captions and page numbers in an unidentified hand in ink on the pages. Oblong folio, black-lettered boards; housed in a modern clamshell box with gilt-lettered title label. Accompanied by 8 anonymous albumen prints of sculpture at Mahabalipuram, India.
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- Auction House · Phillips
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Photographs
October 1, 2019
Spotted works by Captain Linnaeus Tripe
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