Vignette title to part one of Oriental Scenery. Aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795.

  • Daniell, Thomas, 1749-1840.
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1795
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27232i
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Oriental scenery
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Vignette title to part one of Oriental Scenery. Aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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In the centre is a large rock with lettering and dedication. Surrounding it are palm trees and vegetation, with an architectural fragment in the foreground. To the lower right is a cliff top over a distant waterscape

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London (Historic Gallery Pall Mall) : Published as the act directs for Tho[ma]s Daniell by Rob[er]t Bowyer

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1 print : line-etching and aquatint printed in sepia ; platemark 49 x 65.6 cm.

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Oriental scenery. Twenty four views in Hindoostan drawn and engraved by Thomas Daniell, and with permission respectfully dedicated to the honourable court of directors of the East India Company. London March 1. 1795

References note

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, 420
Mildred Archer, Early views of India, London 1980, reproduced on p. 13 at head of chapter one, with chapter number replacing original lettering

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Wellcome Collection 27232i

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