People:

Linnaeus Tripe (photographer)
Rajaraja I, Chola King (role unspecified)

Title:

Photographic Views in Tanjore and Trivady

Date:

Spring 1860

Description:

- The printed "LIST OF VIEWS WITH DESCRIPTIONS" of the album PH1988:007:001-021 indicates the title of each photograph.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 album(s)

Technique and media:

Album of albumen prints

Dimensions:

comps. (range): 23,2 to 33,4 x 29,3 to 37,8 cm secondary support (unbound): 45 x 57 cm album (closed): 57,7 x 45,8 x 1,6 cm

Reference number:

PH1988:0007:001-021

Point of View:

partial views
exterior views
interior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

Album PH1988:0007:001-021 comprises an outer cover enclosing an inscribed cover sheet, followed by a title page, a 3-page "LIST OF VIEWS WITH DESCRIPTIONS", and 21 albumen prints from paper negatives mounted on 21 white pages detached from the album. The outer cover is of off-white cardboard with brown cloth binding. Red and blue imprinted lettering on the outer cover is bordered by blue and black lines with ornate corners, and designs above and below. All photographs have a label affixed on the mount at the top right corner of the photograph, bearing a number that corresponds to the "LIST OF VIEWS WITH DESCRIPTIONS".

Inscription:

imprinted - on the cover, in typescript, in red and blue ink, u.c.: "Photographs of Tanjore." and in black ink, l.c.: "CAPTAIN L. TRIPE, GOVERNMENT PHOTOGRAPHER." numbered and inscribed - by an unknown hand, the cover sheet, in graphite, u.r.: "15/W [15/W overwritten] B 1/6" imprinted - on the title page, in typescript, in black ink, "PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS / IN / TANJORE AND TRIVADY. / BY CAPTAIN L. TRIPE, GOVERNMENT PHOTOGRAPHER, / MADRAS PRESIDENCY. / With Descriptive Notes / by / THE REV. G. U. POPE. / 1858." stamped - by an unknown hand, blind embossed, on the secondary supports, l.c.: "Photographer to Government" [stamp is a sun symbol with the inscription below forming an oval shape enclosing the letters "LT"]

Location:

India

Subject:

architecture
military
sculpture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrance
temple
gateway
figures (representations)
windows
parapets
bas-reliefs
masonry
wall
walls
railing
statues
domes
pavilions (building divisions)
engaged columns
steps
porch
hall
gopuras
statue
hypostyle hall
temple complex
buildings
plinth
shrine (structure)
tree
fort
columns (architectural elements)
ditch
cannon (artillery)
towers (single built works)
dwellings
thatching
alley
vimana
access road
palace complex
courses
defensive wall
lateral stairs
open space
paved path
quadrangle
rampart
cusped arches
niches
brackets (structural elements)
moldings
aedicules
gate towers

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal