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Linnaeus Tripe

Linnaeus Tripe

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PhotographyPhotography
Representation
None documented
2
Institutional Exhibitions
97
Works in Collection
113
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Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the Arnold H. Crane Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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Why this artist matters now

Linnaeus Tripe was a British photographer who specialized in large-format architectural and landscape documentation across India and Burma during the mid-nineteenth century. Working with wet collodion, he produced rigorously composed views of temples, fortifications, and urban topography that merged documentary precision with formal sophistication. His extended photographic surveys from colonial South Asia established him as a significant figure in early architectural photography, combining cartographic ambition with compositional restraint.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 25d ago

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Artworks (97)

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Avenue of the Banian Trees, Seringham, India (1858)
Cleveland Museum of Art
Western Gateway (Gopuram) of the Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple, Madurai (1858)
Cleveland Museum of Art
South Façade of the Quadrangle of the Nayak Darbar Hall, Thanjavur (1858)
Cleveland Museum of Art
Entrance to the Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple, Madurai (1858)
Cleveland Museum of Art
West and South Sides of the Vimana Walls, Great Temple (Brihadeshvara) at Tanjore (Thanjavur) (1858)
Cleveland Museum of Art
Pudhu Mandapa of Tirumal Nayak (r. 1623–59), Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple, Madurai (1858)
Cleveland Museum of Art
Perumal Temple Vimana from Corner of Court, Madurai (1858)
Cleveland Museum of Art
Great Pagoda, Great Bull, Front View, Tanjore, India (Rajarajeshvara Temple), plate 12 from Photographic Views of Tanjore and Trivady (Madras: Madras Presidency) (1857)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Representation & Collections

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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National Gallery of Art
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Exhibitions and timeline

Group ExhibitionBefore Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography
New York · 1981
Group ExhibitionNineteenth-Century Photographs from the Arnold H. Crane Collection
New York · 1979