The Taje Mahel, Agra monochrome aquatint, engraved, printed and published by Thomas Daniell, London, 1801 from the special series of two prints entitled Views of the Taje Mahel at the city of Agra in Hindoostan. with margins, restaurations and slight soiling to the margins, crease along centre fold. P. 595 x 906mm

Nearly three feet wide and larger than any other print from Oriental Scenery, this is one of the two prints issued in 1801 with a separate booklet entitled Views of the Taje Mahel at the city of Agra in Hindoostan taken in 1789. The booklet encompassed a ground plan of the whole area with detailed references to the various parts of the building.
The Daniells, when arriving at Agra, had pitched their tents right in front of the Taj Mahal: they spent days drawing relentessly the mausoleum, which, as Thomas later commented in the introductory text to this very plate, appeared them to be "the first example of Mahomeddan architecture in India...beheld with no less wonder by those who have seen the productions of art in various parts of the globe".