Drawings for Oriental Scenery including Hindu temples beside a banyan grove at Agori, Uttar Pradesh; North West view of the fort at Rohtasgarh, Bihar; and Choultries in Southern India

細節

Thomas Daniell, R.A. (1749-1840)
Drawings for Oriental Scenery including Hindu temples beside a banyan grove at Agori, Uttar Pradesh; North West view of the fort at Rohtasgarh, Bihar; and Choultries in Southern India
the first inscribed 'Hindoo Temple at Aponree on the River Soane Bakar' (on the reverse)
pencil, unframed
18¾ x 26 5/8 in. (47.6 x 67.6 cm.) (3)

來源

Sir Henry Russell, and by descent to
Sir Arthur Russell.
with Walker's Gallery, London.
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 November 1961, lot 4 (part), (2 gns), where purchased for the present collection.

刻印

the first, T. Daniell, aquatint engraving for Oriental Scenery, vol. I, no. 19, 'Hindoo Temples at Agouree, on the River Soane, Bahar, Septr., 1796'; the second, T. Daniell, Oriental Scenery, Series One, no. 20, 'View of Part of Rotas Ghur, in Bahar, Septr, 1796'; the third T. Daniell, Oriental Scenery, vol. II, no. 7, 'South East View of Fort St George, Madras, Septr., 1797'.

注意事項

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拍場告示

Please note that the third drawing was mis-identified as that engraved under the title 'South East View of Fort St George' in Oriental Scenery, vol. II., no. 7.

We would like to thank Jerry Losty for drawing this to our attention.

拍品專文

'Agouree is pleasantly situated on the river Soane, surrounded with hills covered with wood. In this place are many Hindoo temples, and also a small fort, which make a very picturesque appearance from the river' (Oriental Scenery).
The finished watercolour formed part of the P. & O. Collection, sold Christies, London, 24 September 1996, lot 34.

The Daniells give detailed notes about Rohtasgarh, relishing in the layers of history it embodied: 'a considerable flight of steps formerly crowned the eminence on the left; the upper part of which has been thrown down by the Mohommedans, who erected a mosque near to it, and which in its turn is also become a ruin.' (Oriental Scenery)
The finished watercolour formed part of the P. and O. Collection, at Christie's, London, 24 September 1996, lot 10.

The third drawing, with its travellers' shelters, or choultries beside the river, was not engraved for Oriental Scenery but relates to an oil entitled The Waterfall at Kuttalam, Tamil Nadu, 1796, Victoria Memorial, Calcutta (see M. Shellim, India and the Daniells, London, 1979, p. 50, no. 33). The waterfall was a famous place of pilgrimage.