Gateway to a mosque, Chunar, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1797.

  • Daniell, Thomas, 1749-1840.
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January 1797
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27675i
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There is another, earlier, view of the same gateweay by William Hodges published in the series Select views in India with the lettering : "A View of a Mosque at Chunar Gur" - see Wellcome Collection catalogue no. 26842i. Reproduced in Archer on p. 99, where she compares the images

Chunargarh, or Chunar, was a well-known landmark on the journey up and down the Ganges and many of the British stopped to explore the various buildings there. By the Daniells' time, the old Mughal fort on the cliff-top was used by the British as a European invalid station for wounded and sick soldiers. 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, January 1797.

Physical description

1 print : etching and aquatint, with watercolour ; platemark 48.6 x 65.1 cm.

Lettering

Gate leading to a Musjed, at Chunar Ghur ; drawn and engraved by Thomas Daniell Bears number bottom right : XXIV

References note

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, 420.25
Mildred Archer, Early views of India, London 1980, reproduced as no. 69

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Wellcome Collection 27675i

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