Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma, 1854-1860

This display will feature some of the earliest and most striking views of the landscape and architecture of India and Burma, by a pioneering British photographer. While on leave from his post as an officer in the Madras Infantry, Linnaeus Tripe mastered photography and was commissioned as 'Photographer to the Madras Government'. His images combine the eye of a surveyor with the sensibilities of an artist. The display is a collaboration between the V&A, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the National Gallery of Art, Washington.