• Linnaeus Tripe (photographer)

Photographs of Madura. / Part I.

Spring 1860

- The printed LIST OF VIEWS WITH DESCRIPTIONS of the album PH1988:0008.01:001-010 indicates the title of each photograph.

Album of albumen silver prints

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

PH1988:0008.01:001-010

• exterior views

- 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.

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"]

Inde

• 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

Contient:

• PH1988:0008.01:001, Between Chittumputty and Teramboor. Elephant rock end view., January-February 1858
• PH1988:0008.01:002, Teramboor. South-east corner of the outer wall of the pagoda., January-February 1858
• PH1988:0008.01:003, Teramboor. Gate of the pagoda in perspective with an overhanging out-look at the corner., January-February 1858
• PH1988:0008.01:004, Madura. Teppacolum., January-March 1858
• PH1988:0008.01:005, Madura. The Tunkum from east., January-March 1858
• PH1988:0008.01:006, Madura. The vygay river, with causeway, across to Madura, January-March 1858
• PH1988:0008.01:007, Madura. Munduppum in the bed of the [vygay] river seen from the causeway., January-March 1858
• PH1988:0008.01:008, Madura. Roya gopurum, with Trimul Naik's choultry, in the distance., January-March 1858
• PH1988:0008.01:009, Madura. Pillars in the recessed portico in the roya gopurum with the base of one of the four sculptured monoliths., January-March 1858
• PH1988:0008.01:010, Madura. West front of the roya gopurum., January-March 1858