• Linnaeus Tripe (photographer)

Album of views in Madura (now Madurai). Part II.

Spring 1860

- The printed LIST OF VIEWS WITH DESCRIPTIONS of the album PH1988:0008.02:001-009 indicates the title of each photograph.

Album of albumen silver prints

comps. (range): 23,2 to 36 x 25,1 to 37,4 cm secondary support (unbound): 45 x 56 cm album (closed): 57,5 x 45,6 x 1,2 cm

PH1988:0008.02:001-009

• exterior views
• interior views

- Album PH1988:0008.02:001-009 comprises a cover page enclosing 9 albumen prints from paper negatives mounted on 9 unbound white pages. A blank sheet, a title page, a page containing the LIST OF VIEWS WITH DESCRIPTIONS and a page of the album containing photograph PH1988:0008.02:001 follow the cover page. The outer cover is of off-white cardboard with brown cloth binding. Red and blue imprinted lettering on the cover is bordered by blue and black lines with ornate corners, and designs above and below. The pages of the album have been detached. A label bearing a single-digit number that corresponds to the LIST OF VIEWS at the beginning of the album is affixed on the mount at the top right corner of photographs PH1988:0008.02:003 - PH1988:0008.02:009.

imprinted - on the cover, in typescript, in red and blue ink, u.c.: "Photographs of Madura" / Part II." and in black ink, l.c.: "CAPTAIN L. TRIPE. GOVERNMENT PHOTOGRAPHER." inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, on a sheet following the outer cover, in graphite, u.r.: "WB [?] 1/-" imprinted - on the title page, in typescript, in black ink, u.c. to l.c.: "PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS / IN / MADURA. / BY CAPTAIN L. TRIPE, GOVERNMENT PHOTOGRAPHER, / MADRAS PRESIDENCY. / PART II. / With Descriptive Notes, / 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"]

India

• architecture
• engineering
• military
• sculpture
• topographic

• temple
• river
• fence
• gateway
• figures (representations)
• bas-reliefs
• wall
• railing
• statues
• engaged columns
• steps
• causeway
• pavilions (garden structures)
• mandapa
• water tank
• gopura
• gopuras
• statue
• hypostyle hall
• building
• rock
• fortifications
• posts
• columns (architectural elements)
• panel (surface component)
• brick buildings
• dwellings
• thatching
• eave
• aisle
• ceiling
• floor
• slabs (structural elements)
• access road
• temporary dwellings
• paved path
• bastion
• iron (metal)
• memorial column
• patterns (design elements)
• rock carving
• moldings

Contains:

• PH1988:0008.02:001, View of the Pudu Mandapa (also known as Thirumalai Nayak's Choultrie), Minakshi Sundaresvara Temple, Madura (now Madurai), India, January-March 1858
• PH1988:0008.02:002, Madura. Trimul Naik's choultry, side verandah from west, January-March 1858
• PH1988:0008.02:003, Madura. Trimul Naik's choultry centre nave from west end., January-March 1858
• PH1988:0008.02:004, Madura. Trimul Naik's choultry, entrance from portico to central nave from outside., January-March 1858
• PH1988:0008.02:005, Madura. Trimul Naik's choultry, west front, January-March 1858
• PH1988:0008.02:006, Madura. The civil hospital, once a gate of the old fort., January-March 1858
• PH1988:0008.02:007, Madura. Basement of gopurum of a small pagoda near to permaul pagoda., January-March 1858
• PH1988:0008.02:008, View of a paved path showing part of the Sundareswara temple on the left and part of a gopura [?] on the right, Madura (now Madurai), India, January-March 1858
• PH1988:0008.02:009, Madura. The Blackburn Testimonial., January-March 1858