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Linnaeus Tripe: Boxed Notecards

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Published by the Art Gallery of Ontario.
20 assorted 5 x 7" blank note cards (five each of four styles) with envelopes.

Linnaeus Tripe (1822-1902), a British career army officer, is recognized today as one of the great photographers of the nineteenth century. His earliest works were made in England in the early 1850s, while home on a furlough from the East India Company army. Upon his return to India, he became an official government photographer. His major photographic work, carried out using the calotype (waxed paper negative) process between 1854 and 1858, garnered him much recognition. His beautifully composed images of antiquities, temples, palaces, and landscapes in Burma and south India were exhibited in juried exhibitions, where his work received much praise from fellow photographers and the public. Although Tripe grappled with many technical problems while working under difficult conditions,his excursions entailed traveling hundreds of miles on horseback in sweltering heat and heavy rains, with photographic equipment transported in bullock carts,he was able to capture the rich tones and intricate details of the complex structures depicted in this group of cards.

Images:
Amerapoora [Burma]. Maha-too-lo-Bounghian Kyoung, 1855.
Tanjore [India]. Great Pagoda, South Façade of Small Chapel, 1858.
Madura [India]. The Great Pagoda, Mootoo Alaghur and East Gopurum from Tank, 1858.
Madura [India]. Pillars in the Recessed Portico in the Roya Gopurum with the Base of One of the Four Sculpted Monoliths, 1858.

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