Detail of caterpillar, photomicrograph
Salt print, c. 1850s
8/10; 94 x 122 mm, mounted
$975.
The provenance for this photograph is an auction that also contained rare early Tripe views of the West Country in England which are less well known than his esteemed photographs of India and Burma. Tripe is known to have probably produced photomicrographs but the details are unclear.