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THOMAS DANIELL and WILLIAM DANIELL
Exterior of an Eed-Gâh near Chaynpore, Bahar (Abbey 420, no.66; Archer V, pl. 15)
A Minar at Gour (Abbey 420, no.74; Archer V, pl.23)
hand-coloured aquatints, December 1808, framed and glazed, unexamined out of frames (the first print slightly browned with minimal light spotting affecting sky area).
Image: 450 x 590mm; 630 x 420mm
23 January 1790: In Chainpur, in the Shahabad district, an area from where The East India Company would draw some of its best sepoys, Thomas Daniell chose to depict an 'Eed-Gah, a place designed for the performance of solemn festivals by the professors of the Mahomedan religion. The interior of this building is extremely plain, and... of an open quadrangular form, somewhat resembling the courts before the Musjeds or Mosques of the Mahomedans'. This print depicts part of the exterior of the old fort of which Thomas Daniell wrote, 'the general forms are uncommon, as well as the embellishments, which nevertheless are extremely rich and not inelegant."
September 1791: Gaur was the capital of Bengal under its ancient Hindu kings and after 1200 under Muslim rulers, but an outbreak of the plague caused it to be abandoned. When the Daniells visited Gour, the town was, 'nearly overgrown with jungle (i.e. reeds, thorns, and close underwood)'. (2)
Exterior of an Eed-Gâh near Chaynpore, Bahar (Abbey 420, no.66; Archer V, pl. 15)
A Minar at Gour (Abbey 420, no.74; Archer V, pl.23)
hand-coloured aquatints, December 1808, framed and glazed, unexamined out of frames (the first print slightly browned with minimal light spotting affecting sky area).
Image: 450 x 590mm; 630 x 420mm
23 January 1790: In Chainpur, in the Shahabad district, an area from where The East India Company would draw some of its best sepoys, Thomas Daniell chose to depict an 'Eed-Gah, a place designed for the performance of solemn festivals by the professors of the Mahomedan religion. The interior of this building is extremely plain, and... of an open quadrangular form, somewhat resembling the courts before the Musjeds or Mosques of the Mahomedans'. This print depicts part of the exterior of the old fort of which Thomas Daniell wrote, 'the general forms are uncommon, as well as the embellishments, which nevertheless are extremely rich and not inelegant."
September 1791: Gaur was the capital of Bengal under its ancient Hindu kings and after 1200 under Muslim rulers, but an outbreak of the plague caused it to be abandoned. When the Daniells visited Gour, the town was, 'nearly overgrown with jungle (i.e. reeds, thorns, and close underwood)'. (2)
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