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Part of the City of Patna, on the River Ganges (Abbey 420 no.11); Archer I, pl. 10)
hand-coloured aquatint, November 1795, the view printed on a sheet of thin paper (cut to just within the plate-mark) and mounted on a larger sheet. light surface soiling to margin
S.490 x 655mm.
8 November 1788: "The large and populous city of Patna is in the province of Bahar. The gauts, or steps leading up from the river are very numerous here, and are intended for the advantage of merchandise as well as the convenience of the Hindoos, whose religious duties oblige them frequently to perform ablutions in the sacred river Ganges"
hand-coloured aquatint, November 1795, the view printed on a sheet of thin paper (cut to just within the plate-mark) and mounted on a larger sheet. light surface soiling to margin
S.490 x 655mm.
8 November 1788: "The large and populous city of Patna is in the province of Bahar. The gauts, or steps leading up from the river are very numerous here, and are intended for the advantage of merchandise as well as the convenience of the Hindoos, whose religious duties oblige them frequently to perform ablutions in the sacred river Ganges"