Cleveland Museum of Art
A Creeper in the Peradeniya Gardens, Ceylon
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- Date
- c. 1880
- Medium
- Albumen print from glass plate negative
- Culture
- India, 19th century
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 311761
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The extravagant baroque curves of this vine were shot in what are now known as the Royal Botanical Gardens. With origins as far back as 1371, the gardens were formally established by the colonial government in 1843 using European plants from Kew Garden in London and native specimens from Slave Island, Colombo, and the Kalutara Garden in Kalutara. Ceylon is now the nation of Sri Lanka.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer
- Provenance
- Bruno Tartarain, photovintagefrance, Arnaville, France | Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer, Beverly Hills, CA | June 4, 2018: the Cleveland Museum of Art
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