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The Mausoleum of Mucdoom Shah Dowlut, at Moneah, on the River Soane (Abbey 420 no.13; Archer I, pl.12)
hand-coloured aquatint, January 1796, the view printed and mounted on a sheet of thin paper (cut to just within the plate-mark). slight surface soiling to margins
S.490 x 650mm.
13 November 1788:"The Mosque at Moneah...is one of the highest finished pieces of Architecture we have seen in the Country, built entirely of Stone". It is in fact a mausoleum erected for the Muslim saint, Makhadam Shah Daulat, died in 1608 and who was interred at Maner.
hand-coloured aquatint, January 1796, the view printed and mounted on a sheet of thin paper (cut to just within the plate-mark). slight surface soiling to margins
S.490 x 650mm.
13 November 1788:"The Mosque at Moneah...is one of the highest finished pieces of Architecture we have seen in the Country, built entirely of Stone". It is in fact a mausoleum erected for the Muslim saint, Makhadam Shah Daulat, died in 1608 and who was interred at Maner.