Hullabede: Suli Munduppum from the Northeast
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Tripe probably made paper negatives because the process was more forgiving in India’s climate. He could also prepare his negatives in advance and develop them at his leisure, unlike the newly invented collodion process in which the glass negative had to be prepared immediately before exposure and developed immediately afterward. Tripe also used very thin paper, which he waxed in order to make his negatives more transparent and capture greater detail. He made his prints by placing the negative in contact with a sheet of light-sensitive paper. At the time, there was no practical way to make enlargements; thus, if he wanted a large print, his negative had to be of equal size.
Artwork Details
- Title: Hullabede: Suli Munduppum from the Northeast
- Artist: Linnaeus Tripe (British, Devonport (Plymouth Dock) 1822–1902 Devonport)
- Date: December 1854
- Dimensions: 10 13/16 × 14 in. (27.4 × 35.6 cm)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford
- Curatorial Department: Photographs