Linnaeus Tripe at the V&A

The V&A holds many rare photographs by Linnaeus Tripe. 

All photographs by Tripe in the V&A collections were donated. They come from three sources:

• In 1861 Tripe and the Madras Government sent photographs as a gift to the School of Design, Department of Science and Art, South Kensington Museum (now the V&A).
• Nine albums were donated in 1889 by Caroline Lucy, Lady Denison, wife of Sir William Thomas Denison, governor of Madras from 1861 to 1866. 
• A large number of photographs from the Tripe family collection were donated in 1933 by Edith Stores.  She offered them to the V&A with the words ' I do not want them, as this house is not v[ery] big, but if you think that any of them are of interest now, & would care to look through them, I will gladly send them…'

Photographs by Tripe in the V&A can be seen in the Word & Image department, the National Art Library, the Prints and Drawings Study Room and the Asia department.

Those in the Word and Image department are listed on the respective catalogues and available to see in the National Art Library and the Prints and Drawings Study Room respectively during opening hours without appointment.

Those in the Asia department are available to see by appointment only.
Please note that some are duplicates of those on open access in the National Art Library.
To find out more about the Asia department holdings: