The Qudsia Bagh, Delhi: eastern view. Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795.

  • Daniell, Thomas, 1749-1840.
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March 1795
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The Qudsia Bagh, Delhi: eastern view. Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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See Archer, op. cit., where she quotes Thomas Daniell's journal: "Cotsea Bhaug, so called from the bhaug, or garden, within the quadrangular building, which was erected by the Cotsea Begum, a Mahommedan lady, in the reign of the Emperor Akbar..."

The building shown in this print, enclosing the Qudsia Bagh, has completely disappeared. It formed the eastern bastion of the Red Fort, a gateway of which can be seen in the distance. See Archer op. cit.

In 1806, Humphry Repton based part of his design for the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, East Sussex. See Archer op. cit.

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

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1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; platemark 48.8 x 64.6 cm.

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North east view of the Cotsea Bhaug, on the river Jumna, Delhi ; drawn and engraved by Thomas Daniell Bears number bottom right : III

References note

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, 420.4
Mildred Archer, Early views of India, London 1980, reproduced as no. 37

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Wellcome Collection 27327i

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