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View from the Top of the Rock, looking over the native Town, Trichinopoly, India
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About this work
The Ranganathaswamy Temple, dedicated to the god Vishnu, originated in the 1st century CE and is still active today. This view sets the gopura (temple entrance towers) in their urban context and juxtaposes the vast scale of the complex against the much humbler buildings where the Indian population lived and worked. To see carvings inside the temple complex, look at 2015.37 in the collection.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineView from the Top of the Rock, looking over the native Town, Trichinopoly, India, 1878. Nicholas & Co. (British, active India, 1873–1905). Albumen print; paper: 22.6 x 28.5 cm (8 7/8 x 11 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 2024.78
