Lot 121: Linnaeus Tripe 1822-1902 , 'view of the nave from the simhasanum at the westend [sic]'

plate 3 from Tripe's Photographic Views in Madura Part II (Madras, 1860), albumen print with arched top, on the original oblong folio mount, the photographer's 'Photographer to Government' blindstamp and a label, numbered '3' in letterpress, on the mount, matted, 1858-60

measurements note 9 by 13¼ in. (22.9 by 33.7 cm.)

Monterey Museum of Art, Passion and Precision: Photographs from the Collection of Margaret W. Weston , January - April 2003

Another print of this image:
Janet Dewan, The Photographs of Linnaeus Tripe: A Catalogue Raisonné
(Toronto, 2003), cat. no. 6-116 and fig. 13, where the title is given as 'Madura. trimul kaik's choultry centre nave from west end
.'

Linnaeus Tripe produced four albums entitled Photographic Views in Madura , each sequentially titled Part I through Part IV . The print offered here comes from Photographic Views in Madura Part II . According to Tripe scholar Janet Dewan, 11 surviving intact copies of this album are in institutional collections. Intact volumes of Part II have only appeared at auction twice, and were subsequently disbound and dispersed.