A Creeper in the Peradeniya Gardens, Ceylon
Scowen & Co. (British, active Ceylon, 1876–1895)
c. 1880
- Medium
- Albumen print from glass plate negative
- Classification
- Photograph
- Dimensions
- Image: 27.7 x 21.5 cm (10 7/8 x 8 7/16 in.); Paper: 27.7 x 21.5 cm (10 7/8 x 8 7/16 in.); Mounted: 29.3 x 23 cm (11 9/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- India, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography
- Credit line
- Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The extravagant baroque curves of this vine were shot in what are now known as the Royal Botanical Gardens. With origins as far back as 1371, the gardens were formally established by the colonial government in 1843 using European plants from Kew Garden in London and native specimens from Slave Island, Colombo, and the Kalutara Garden in Kalutara. Ceylon is now the nation of Sri Lanka.
