Palace of Shuja-ud-Daula at Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1787.

  • Hodges, William, 1744-1797.
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14 December 1787
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Palace of Shuja-ud-Daula at Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1787. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Early views in India, Mildred Archer, London 1980, no. 59. Faizabad had been the capital of Oudh, now Uttar Pradesh, under Shuja-ud-Daula, who ruled from 1754-1775

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London (103 Strand) : J. Grives, 14 December 1787.

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1 print : soft ground etching with aquatint, printed in sepia, with watercolour ; platemark 32.7 x 47.8 cm.

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A view of part of the palace of the late Nabob Suja ul Dowla at Fizabad ; drawn on the spot & engraved by W. Hodges

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Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, no. 416.37

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Five other impressions of this image, three with watercolour and two in monochrome, exist in the collection

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Wellcome Collection 26832i

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