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Linnaeus Tripe

The Tamukkam or Tamkam

January–March 1858
Albumen silver print from waxedpaper negative
26 × 37.2 cm (10.2 × 14.6 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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