Linnaeus Tripe photographs
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A2001.10
name: label: Creator
content: Tripe, Linnaeus
place: label: Place
content: India
label: Place
content: India -- Andhra Pradesh -- Amaravati
topic: label: Topic
content: Tombs -- India
label: Topic
content: Buddhist sculpture -- India -- Amaravati
label: Topic
content: Amaravati (India) -- Antiquities
label: Topic
content: Monuments
creator: label: Creator
content: Tripe, Linnaeus
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Linnaeus Tripe (1822-1902) was an official photographer for the British Government, employed to document Southern Indian archaeological remains before they further decayed. He photographed widely in southern India, including Rayakottai (Ryakotta), which was then a British stronghold. Around 1858 Tripe took this image of sculptures from the ruined Buddhist stupa at Amaravati, which was a large monument built approximately 2000 years ago in what is now Andhra Pradesh. The stupa was a mound-like structure made of brick, adorned with bas-relief medallions, paneled friezes made of limestone and freestanding sculpture. As time passed, the stupa fell into disrepair and was eventually buried under rubble. Eventually, the structure was excavated and some of the decorative elements were shipped to the British Museum, London. These pieces were referred to as the 'Elliot marbles' after Walter Elliot, the antiquarian, linguist and member of the Madras Council who recovered them.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Prints (albumenized salt paper, images 25 x 37 cm. or smaller, mounted 44 x 57 or smaller.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1856-1858
container: label: Container
content: Box 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro, 2001.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2001.10
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Salted paper prints
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: One flat box.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Salted paper prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection consists of three photographs: I. Albumenized salt print from wet collodion negative, 22 x 28 cm., circa 1858, on original mount, 33 x 45 cm. Depicts a piece of sculpture from the Great Stupa at Amaravati; these sculptures were then known as the Elliot marbles. II. Albumenized salt print from wet collodion negative, 18 x 29 cm., circa 1858, on original mount, 34 x 46 cm. Depicts an Indian sculpture with a measuring device. III. Albumenized salt print from wet collodion negative, 25 x 37 cm., circa 1856, on original mount, 44 x 57 cm. Depicts the idgah and tomb at Ryakotta (Rayakottai).