Elliot Marbles, 1859

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series Title

Photographs of the Elliot Marbles; and other subjects; in the Central Museum Madras

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image/

sheet: 16.6 × 23.2 cm (6 9/16 × 9 1/8 in.)
mount: 33.1 × 45.1 cm (13 1/16 × 17 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro Ph.D

Accession Number

2018.23.1

Artists / Makers

Linnaeus Tripe (artist) British, 1822 - 1902

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

by artist, top right in black ink: 49; bottom center in black ink: 151; embossed bottom center: PHOTOGRAPHER TO GOVERNMENT; on verso, center stamped in purple ink: COUNTY BOROUGH / ATKIMSON / PHOTO LIBRARY / REFER[illegible] OF DEPT. / OF SOUTHPORT; by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: 8; bottom left in graphite: $.6500.00 S/C

Provenance

(Lowinsky Gallery, New York); Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro Collection, New York, 2013; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Isaacs Photographs, Charles

Bibliography

1858: Tripe, Linnaeus. Photographs of the Elliot Marbles; and Other Subjects; in the Central Museum Madras. Bangalore, India, 1858-59: 49.