Mosque at Gaur, West Bengal. Etching by James Moffat after Henry Creighton, ca. 1808.

1 print : line etching with aquatint, printed in sepia ; platemark 36.1 x 50.8 cm

Mosque at Peruspore, Gour ; HC. delin ; J. Moffat sculp. Calcutta

Mildred Archer, British drawings in the India Office Library, London 1969, vol. 1, p. 49. In her introduction, Archer includes Moffat among a group of professional artists who had "come to India, succumbed to its spell and, after abandoning their homelands, lived and died there". Moffat is known to have published prints in India. The lettering on this print "J. Moffat sculp. Calcutta" suggests that this print, together with two other views of Gaur by Moffat after Creighton in the collection, was published in Calcutta

Mildred Archer, British drawings in the India Office Library, London 1969, vol. 2, p. 621. In 1808 James Moffat produced a series of prints after Henry Creighton's drawings of Gaur

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, 438. The series The Ruins of Gour, with plates by Thomas Medland after Henry Creighton, may be derived from the same series of images as the current image by James Moffat

Mildred Archer, Early views in India, London 1980, note to no. 91. Gaur was the capital of Bengal under its ancient Hindu kings and after 1200 under Muslim rulers. Husain Shah ruled from 1493-1519. In 1575, an outbreak of plague caused the city to be abandoned

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