The Great Chaitya Temple on the island of Salsette, Maharashtra. Coloured aquatint by Thomas and William Daniell, 1799.

  • Daniell, Thomas, 1749-1840.
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1 December 1799
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27689i
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The Great Chaitya Temple (Cave 3) at Kanheri on the island of Salsette. Of the more than 101 Buddhist shrines that were carved into the rocky hill between the second century and the middle of the sixth, it is one of the earliest. At the time of the Daniells' travels, the island was separated from Bombay by numerous inlets of the sea, but it is now [1996] attached to the mainland by roads and railways. Archer op. cit.

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London (Howland Street, Fitzroy Square) : Thomas Daniell, 1 December 1799.

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1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; platemark 48.1 x 65.1 cm.

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An excavated temple on the island of Salsette ; drawn & engraved by Tho[ma]s Daniell, R.A. & W[illia]m Daniell Bears number bottom right : III

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Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, 420.54
Mildred Archer, Early views of India, London 1980, reproduced as no. 136

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Wellcome Collection 27689i

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