Photographs of Trichinopoly.

People:

Linnaeus Tripe (photographer)

Title:

Photographs of Trichinopoly.

Date:

Spring 1860

Description:

The printed LIST OF VIEWS of the album PH1988:0010:001-008 indicates the title of each photograph.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 album(s)

Technique and media:

Album of albumen silver prints

Dimensions:

comps. (range): 24,5 to 28,1 x 36,4 to 37,8 cm secondary support (unbound): 45 x 57,5 cm album (closed): 57,7 x 45,8 x 1,4 cm

Reference number:

PH1988:0010:001-008

Point of View:

partial views
exterior views
interior views

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Album PH1988:0010:001-008 comprises a cover page enclosing 8 albumen prints from paper negatives mounted on 8 unbound white pages. An inscribed sheet, a title page and a page containing the LIST OF VIEWS WITH DESCRIPTIONS 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 PH1988:0010:001 - PH1988:0010:008.

Inscription:

imprinted - on the cover, in typescript, in red and blue ink, u.c.: "Photographs of Trichinopoly." 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.l.: "WB1/- / 8/6" imprinted - on the title page, in black ink, u.c. to l.c.: "PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS / OF / TRICHINOPOLY. BY CAPTAIN L. TRIPE, GOVERNMENT PHOTOGRAPHER. / MADRAS PRESIDENCY. / 1858." stamped - by an unknown hand, blind embossed, on the secondary support,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 Descriptive Terms:

temple
street
parapet
bas-reliefs
walls
wall
palace
dome
passage
porch
hill
mosque
temple complex
buildings
building
fort
columns (architectural elements)
thatching
masjid
citadel
railroad bridge
lintels
access road
post-and-beam structures
tomb slab

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

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