• Linnaeus Tripe (photographer)

Photographs of Seringham.

Spring 1860

- The printed LIST OF VIEWS of the album PH1988:0009:001-009 indicates the title of each photograph.

Album of albumen silver prints

comps. (range): 24,6 to 29,1 x 35,1 to 37,4 cm secondary support (unbound): 45,3 x 57 cm album (closed): 57,2 x 45,9 x 1,6 cm

PH1988:0009:001-009

• partial views
• exterior views
• interior views

- Album PH1988:0009:001-009 comprises a cover page enclosing 9 albumen prints from paper negatives mounted on 9 unbound white pages. An inscribed sheet, a title page and a page containing the LIST OF VIEWS WITH DESCRIPTIONS and a blank page 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 PH1988:0009:001-009.

imprinted - on the cover, in typescript, in red and blue ink, u.c.: "Photographs of Seringham." and in black ink, l.c.: "CAPTAIN L. TRIPE. GOVERNMENT PHOTOGRAPHER." numbered and inscribed - by an unknown hand, on a sheet following the outer cover, in graphite, u.l.: "7/6 WB / 1/-" imprinted - on the title page, in black ink, u.c. to l.c.: "PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS / OF / SERINGHAM. 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"]

Inde

• entrance
• temple
• street
• gateway
• figures (representations)
• bas-reliefs
• masonry
• wall
• engaged columns
• passage
• water tank
• gopuras
• gopura
• hypostyle hall
• temple complex
• buildings
• shrine (structure)
• columns (architectural elements)
• pavilion (garden structure)
• dwellings
• thatching
• fortified wall
• access road
• open space
• devotional figures (representations)
• jewellery
• shacks
• utensils

Contient:

• PH1988:0009:001, Seeringham. Gateway from outside of [Great] pagoda (being an unfinished gopurum)., January 1858
• PH1988:0009:002, Seeringham. [Great Pagoda,] View of the line of gopurums on the south side from the top of the gateway., January 1858
• PH1988:0009:003, Seeringham. [Great Pagoda,] Munduppum (four pillared) inside gateway., January 1858
• PH1988:0009:004, Seeringham. [Great Pagoda,] No. 3 gopurum., January 1858
• PH1988:0009:005, Seeringham. [Great Pagoda,] West half of the sasharoyen munduppum., January 1858
• PH1988:0009:006, The Great Pagoda at Seringham. Jewels of the pagoda., January 1858
• PH1988:0009:007, [Seeringham.] Jumboogasurum Pagoda. Approach to the pagoda from west., January 1858
• PH1988:0009:008, [Seeringham.] Jumboogasurum Pagoda. View along the space on the west side between enclosures., January 1858
• PH1988:0009:009, [Seeringham.] Jumboogasurum Pagoda. Teppacolum., January 1858