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Near Bandell on the River Hoogly (Abbey 420 no.134; Archer IV, pl.8)
hand-coloured aquatint, January 1804. thick paper
P.485 x 655mm.
7 September 1788: "Passed Bandell [...] at 11". In his note on this view, Thomas Daniell stresses the "air of romantic grandeur" pervading the banks of the Hooghley river, adorned by "temples and other sacred structures of the Hindoos". He chose to depict a Suttee, which appeared him to be " most curious memorials of the perversion of human intellect, having been raised to commemorate the immolation of certain unfortunate females, who, in compliance with a horrid custom about Hindoos, had been induced to give the last dreadful proof of conjugal fidelity, by a voluntary death on the funeral pile of their husband", a custom which, he comments with relief, had been prohibited in the territories administrated by the British.
hand-coloured aquatint, January 1804. thick paper
P.485 x 655mm.
7 September 1788: "Passed Bandell [...] at 11". In his note on this view, Thomas Daniell stresses the "air of romantic grandeur" pervading the banks of the Hooghley river, adorned by "temples and other sacred structures of the Hindoos". He chose to depict a Suttee, which appeared him to be " most curious memorials of the perversion of human intellect, having been raised to commemorate the immolation of certain unfortunate females, who, in compliance with a horrid custom about Hindoos, had been induced to give the last dreadful proof of conjugal fidelity, by a voluntary death on the funeral pile of their husband", a custom which, he comments with relief, had been prohibited in the territories administrated by the British.