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Captain Linnaeus Tripe — Great Pagoda, Great Bull, Front View, Tanjore, India (Rajarajeshvara Temple), plate 12 from Photographic Views of Tanjore and Trivady (Madras: Madras Presidency)
Captain Linnaeus Tripe

Great Pagoda, Great Bull, Front View, Tanjore, India (Rajarajeshvara Temple), plate 12 from Photographic Views of Tanjore and Trivady (Madras: Madras Presidency)

1857

Part of a pioneering photographic survey of Indian monuments, this salted paper print reveals the monumental scale and artistic sophistication of Chola dynasty temple architecture from the 11th century.

Medium
salted paper print from calotype negative

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Captain Linnaeus Tripe, Great Pagoda, Great Bull, Front View, Tanjore, India (Rajarajeshvara Temple), plate 12 from Photographic Views of Tanjore and Trivady (Madras: Madras Presidency), 1857

Part of a pioneering photographic survey of Indian monuments, this salted paper print reveals the monumental scale and artistic sophistication of Chola dynasty temple architecture from the 11th century.

Medium
salted paper print from calotype negative
Year
1857
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Monument, Monochrome, Documentary, Photograph, Temple, Colonial, British, Architecture, India

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