Lot Essay
This watercolour - and lots 59, 60, 61, 62 - are all views on the Khoh River, between Kotdwara and Srinagar.
'The Koah Nullah [Khoh River] is a mountain stream that in the season of rain must be a furious torrent, but in the month of April was a delightful rivulet, that, sparkling in the sun, gave animation and beauty to the rude scenes through which it pursued its course' (Oriental Scenery).
The enthusiasm for sparkling streams was apparently not shared by the Daniells' remaining Bengali servants:
'These lowlanders gave also another example of the force of prejudice in their great aversion to the beautiful transparent water every where flowing through the hilly country: their stagnant reservoirs, and even the turbid waters of the Hooghly at Calcutta, appeared to them much more inviting' (Oriental Scenery).
'The Koah Nullah [Khoh River] is a mountain stream that in the season of rain must be a furious torrent, but in the month of April was a delightful rivulet, that, sparkling in the sun, gave animation and beauty to the rude scenes through which it pursued its course' (Oriental Scenery).
The enthusiasm for sparkling streams was apparently not shared by the Daniells' remaining Bengali servants:
'These lowlanders gave also another example of the force of prejudice in their great aversion to the beautiful transparent water every where flowing through the hilly country: their stagnant reservoirs, and even the turbid waters of the Hooghly at Calcutta, appeared to them much more inviting' (Oriental Scenery).