Royacottah: View Overlooking the Country, South-Southeast from inside the Fort Gate
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.This photograph was made at the base of the hill fort at Royacottah, looking down a wall toward the gate; the fort is situated on top of the adjacent massive rock formation at right. After fierce fighting in 1791, the British captured this hill fort, which rose nine hundred feet above the plain and commanded a major pass. Tripe photographed it fifty years later, when the fort, once considered impregnable, had been abandoned and overgrown.
Artwork Details
- Title: Royacottah: View Overlooking the Country, South-Southeast from inside the Fort Gate
- Artist: Linnaeus Tripe (British, Devonport (Plymouth Dock) 1822–1902 Devonport)
- Date: December 1857–January 1858
- Dimensions: image: 28 × 37.3 cm (11 × 14 11/16 in.)
sheet: 45.2 × 57.4 cm (17 13/16 × 22 5/8 in.) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Given by Lady Denison
- Curatorial Department: Photographs