Virabadra Drug as seen from near the site of the last view, December 1857?January 1858, Salted paper print from waxed paper negative, 27. 7 x 38. 2 cm (10 7/8 x 15 1/16 in. ), Photographs, Linnaeus Tripe (British, Devonport (Plymouth Dock) 1822?1902 Devonport), Tripe was a career military officer in India and government photographer to the Madras Presidency in the late 1850s. Between December 1857 and April 1858 he made an ambitious and difficult tour of India's southern districts to create a record for the British colonial government of the region's antiquities, scenes of historic importance, and natural phenomena