Richard Banner Oakeley (1834-1914) att.

Richard Banner Oakeley (1834-1914) att.

HALEBID TEMPLE STUDIES c.1850 Salt paper prints from a waxed paper negatives, image size, approx 227 x 279 mm, pasted onto album leafes 365 x 260mm

Though unsigned, this series of 5 photographs of the Halebid temples are attributed to Richard Banner Oakeley based on their quality and tonal range. They are all landscape-format prints and none appear in Oakeley's book The Pagoda of Hallibeed (1859) where all 56 prints were in portrait format. Other possible photographers include Linnaeus Tripe (1822-1902), William Henry Pigou (1818-1858) and Andrew Charles Brisbane Neill (1814-1891). None of the photographs appear in Janet Dewan's Catalogue Raisonné of the photographs of Tripe, the most likely other candidate of the three based on quality, and the work of Pigou and Neill is not as strong as that of Oakeley.

(Quantity:5)