Cleveland Museum of Art
South Façade of the Quadrangle of the Nayak Darbar Hall, Thanjavur
Captain Linnaeus TripeLinkedCulture matchlcp-5cad35cce517
- Date
- 1858
- Medium
- albumenized salt print
- Culture
- England, 19th century
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 384299
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Early box cameras had no shutter; the photographer just removed and replaced the lens cap, guessing at how long to leave it off. Linnaeus Tripe’s mastery of light and exposure here is incredible. The print allows us to read the decoration that is in shadow as well as that in full sunlight. This assembly hall is an important example of the Islamic influences brought by the Nayaks to South Indian architecture in the 1600s.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- Private Collection, United Kingdom | 2020: (Prahlad Bubbar Indian and Islamic Art, London, United Kingdom) | September 14, 2020: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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