Photographs of Madura. / Part I.

People:

Linnaeus Tripe (photographer)

Title:

Photographs of Madura. / Part I.

Date:

Spring 1860

Description:

- The printed LIST OF VIEWS WITH DESCRIPTIONS of the album PH1988:0008.01:001-010 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): 23,7 to 35,4 x 28,3 to 37,2 cm secondary support (unbound): 45 x 56 cm album (closed): 56,7 x 45,5 x 1,2 cm

Reference number:

PH1988:0008.01:001-010

Point of View:

exterior views

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Album PH11088:0008.01:001-010 comprises a cover page enclosing 10 albumen prints from paper negatives mounted on 10 unbound white pages. A blank sheet, a title page, a page containing the LIST OF VIEWS WITH DESCRIPTIONS and two pages of the album containing photographs PH11088:0008.01:001 and PH11088:0008.01:002 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 or double-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 each photograph.

Inscription:

imprinted - on the cover, in typescript, in red and blue ink, u.c.: "Photographs of Madura." / Part I." 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.: "3V. [illeg.] / WB1/-" imprinted - on the title page, in black ink, u.c. to l.c.: "PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS / IN / MADURA. BY CAPTAIN L. TRIPE, GOVERNMENT PHOTOGRAPHER. / PART I. / With Descriptive Notes, / by / M. NORMAN, ESQ., / M.C.S. / 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
river
fence
figures (representations)
bas-reliefs
statues
causeway
pavilions (garden structures)
mandapa
water tank
gopuras
gopura
hypostyle hall
building
rock
fortifications
posts
columns (architectural elements)
panel (surface component)
dwellings
thatching
access road
temporary dwellings
bastion
patterns (design elements)
rock carving

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

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