Amerapoora. Gautama's Shrine

Inscriptions

Signed by artist in ink in lower right corner

Unkown owners; Sotheby's New York; Robert Hershkowitz, London; Cleveland Museum of Art

Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

Artist: Captain Linnaeus Tripe (British, 1822–1902)
Date: 1855
Medium: albumen print from waxed paper negative
Dimensions: Image: 34.2 x 25.9 cm (13 7/16 x 10 3/16 in.); Mounted: 58.3 x 45.7 cm (22 15/16 x 18 in.); Paper: 34.2 x 25.9 cm (13 7/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photograph
Department: Photography
Credit line: Gift of Robert and Paula Hershkowitz in honor of Tom Hinson
Accession no.: 2011.23

Great Pagoda, Great Bull, Front View, Tanjore, India (Rajarajeshvara Temple), plate 12 from Photographic Views of Tanjore and Trivady (Madras: Madras Presidency)
Captain Linnaeus Tripe
1857 · Photograph
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00000351
Western Gateway (Gopuram) of the Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple, Madurai
Captain Linnaeus Tripe
1858 · Photograph
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00000382
West and South Sides of the Vimana Walls, Great Temple (Brihadeshvara) at Tanjore (Thanjavur)
Captain Linnaeus Tripe
1858 · Photograph
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00000383
Entrance to the Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple, Madurai
Captain Linnaeus Tripe
1858 · Photograph
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00000384