Sikandra, near Agra, Uttar Pradesh: gateway to the mausoleum of the Emperor Akbar. Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795.

The mausoleum or tomb of the emperor Akbar had been built by his son Jahangir, and was completed in 1613. Archer op. cit.

"The print gives a clear idea of the manner in which the Daniells travelled during this stage of their journey when they had attached themselves to a party bound for Agra. A large encampments of tents is set up just outside the main gateway and the scene is busy with the British, their servants and bodyguard" (Archer, loc. cit.)

London (Historic Gallery Pall Mall) : Published as the act directs for Tho[ma]s Daniell by Rob[er]t Bowyer, November 1795.

1 print : line etching and aquatint, with watercolour ; platemark 48.9 x 65 cm.

Gate of the tomb of the emperor Akbar, at Secundra, at Agra ; drawn and engraved by Thomas Daniell Bears number bottom right: IX

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, 420.10

Mildred Archer, Early views of India, London 1980, reproduced as no. 30

Catherine B. Asher, Architecture of Mughal India, Cambridge 1992 (The New Cambridge history of India, part I, vol. 4), pp. 105-111

Wellcome Collection 27432i