Madura. The Great Pagoda Jewels.

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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Artist: Linnaeus Tripe (British, Devonport (Plymouth Dock) 1822–1902 Devonport)
Date: January–February 1858
Medium: Albumen silver print from dry collodion on glass negative
Dimensions: Image: 21.9 x 30.1 cm (8 5/8 x 11 7/8 in.) Mount: 45.1 x 57.3 cm (17 3/4 x 22 9/16 in.) Mat: 21 1/8 × 23 15/16 in. (53.6 × 60.8 cm)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 2005
Accession no.: 2005.100.381.2.11

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