Temple interior with a Buddhist stupa on the island of Salsette, near Bombay, Maharashtra. Coloured aquatint by Thomas and William Daniell, 1800.

A stupa is at type of Buddhist monument, commemorative of Buddha, and probably based on the burial mounds put over his ashes after their division

Thomas Daniell's comments on the interior of this temple show his difficulty in distinguishing between Hindu and Buddhist cave-temples. He refers to the stupa at the end of the interior as an "idol". Archer op. cit.

London (Howland Street, Fitzroy Square) : Thomas Daniell, 1 June 1800.

1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; platemark 48.5 x 65.5 cm.

The interior of an excavated Hindoo temple, on the island of Salsette ; drawn & engraved by Tho[ma]s Daniell, R.A. & W[illia]m Daniell Bears number lower right : XII

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1862 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, 420.63

Mildred Archer, Early views of India, London 1980, reproduced as no. 138

Wellcome Collection 27919i