Inscription around the basement of the Bimanum of the Great Pagoda at Tanjore /
Tripe, Linnaeus,1822-1902.
[Madras?: Madras Presidency?,
1859?].
A 19 foot-long panorama, made of 21 separate prints, by Linnaeus Tripe. The camera had to be perfectly level as he moved around the four sides of the base of the Brihadishvara Temple, then known as the Great Pagoda, in Tanjore (Thanjavur) to record its inscriptions. Pieced together as a continuous scroll that can be read as a single narrative, the panorama was the first of its kind in photography. Tripe also photographed the temple.
Title information from label on back of roll.
Panoramas