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Tamil Gateway (Gopura), Tamil Nadu
c. 1860
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
A stereograph, when seen through a viewer, produces the illusion of a three-dimensional scene and creates a “you-are-there” sensation. This stereo view documents a Hindu temple in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The high <em>gopura</em> or gatehouse leading into the temple precinct is characteristic of the Dravidian temples found in that region.
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- Title: Tamil Gateway (Gopura), Tamil Nadu
- Date Created: c. 1860
- Physical Dimensions: Image: 7 x 13.8 cm (2 3/4 x 5 7/16 in.); Mounted: 8.3 x 17.3 cm (3 1/4 x 6 13/16 in.)
- Provenance: (Daniella Dangoor, London, England), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Photograph
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.71
- Medium: stereoscopic albumen print from glass plate negative
- Inscriptions: Written in pencil on verso of mount: “very fine quality photograph £10/c. 1860/4776”
- Fun Fact: Stereographs were introduced to the public in London in 1851 and became wildly popular from the 1860s to around 1930.
- Department: Photography
- Culture: Unknown, 19th century
- Credit Line: Gift of Daniella Dangoor
- Collection: PH - Misc. 19th Century
- Accession Number: 2019.71
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