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 14 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Eastern gate of the Jummah Musjid at Delhi, by Thomas Daniell, print, aquatint, 1795, London.

This depicts one of the entrances to the Jami Masjid, with steps leading up to an imposing gateway. There is a procession with elephants in the foreground.

This is one of a set of twenty-four print... Read More
 14 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Watercolour by William Daniell R.A., entitled 'In the Garden House Reach, Calcutta'. India, ca. 1786-1791.

Watercolour depicting the environs of a garden house in Calcutta. Inscribed with title.

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 14 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Watercolour by William Daniell R.A., depicting Anopshur, a large castle-like structure serving as a military station. India, ca. 1789.

Watercolour depicting Anopshur, a large castle-like structure serving as a military station or fortress. It is situated on the top of a cliff and people riding... Read More
 14 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Thomas Daniell. 'Ruins of the Palace at Madura [The Palace of Tirumulla Nayak]'.

Watercolour

This drawing was formerly attributed to William Hodges.

It s the preliminary drawing made by Thomas Daniell for the aquatint by the same artist in 'Oriental Scenery' published by T and W Daniell,... Read More
 14 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
View in Southern India 1769 - 1837
William Daniell

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 13 Jun 2013 Article/Essay
36 years old Thomas Daniell and his nephew William, a lad of sixteen, sailed out from Gravesend in April 1785, destined for the East where they were to spend the next eight years. Of humble origins, they arrived in Calcutta via China early in seventeen eighty-six, looking for wealthy patrons, and... Read More
 13 Jun 2013 Article/Essay
William DANIELL
(1769-1837)

Landscape painter and engraver.

Eldest son of William Daniell (d. 1779), an innkeeper, and his wife, Sarah. He was the nephew of the landscape painter, Thomas Daniell (1749-1840).

William Daniell was one of the foremost landscape artists of the early C19th. He acqu... Read More
 13 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
The waterfall at Papanasam, Madras; view looking up the river Tambrapani, with steep, rocky and wooded banks, in foreground to right, two figures.
Watercolour, over graphite.

The Tambrapani is a sacred river and devout Hindus immerse themselves in the water below the falls; "Papanasam" means ... Read More
 13 Jun 2013 New Books
New Book:
Visions of Courtly India: The Archer collection of Pahari miniatures
By W. G. Archer
Published by The Foundation - 1976

A splendid collection of eighty miniature paintings from fourteen Indian schools, assembled over many years by W. G. and Mildred Archer.

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 13 Jun 2013 New Books
New Book:
Early Views of India: Picturesque Journeys of Thomas and William Daniell, 1786-94
By Mildred Archer
Published by Thames & Hudson Ltd. - 1980

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Obituary:
Mildred Archer
Art historian at the India Office
By Deborah Swallow
The Independent - 2005

In ... Read More
 11 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Near Attoor, in the Dindigul District - 1804

Plate 6 from the fourth set of Thomas and William Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery,' which they called 'Twenty-four Landscapes.' The views progress northwards from the far south at Cape Comorin to Srinagar in Garhwal in the Himalaya mountains. This south... Read More
 11 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Cape Comorin, taken near Calcad - 1804

Plate 1 from the fourth set of Thomas and William Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery,' which they called 'Twenty-four Landscapes.' The views progress northwards from the far south at Cape Comorin to Srinagar in Garhwal in the Himalaya mountains. 'This view...', ... Read More
 10 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
'The Taje Mahel, Agra'. Aquatint, drawn and engraved by Thomas and William Daniell. Published Thomas Daniell, London, 1801.

Coloured aquatint by Thomas and William Daniell of the Taj Mahal at Agra, dated 1801.

This print, together with the one entitled "The Taje Mahel, Agra. Taken in the ga... Read More
 10 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Eastern Gate of the Jumma Musjid at Delhi - 1795

Plate 1 from the first set of Thomas Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery.' The Jami Masjid of Delhi, the largest mosque in India, was built between 1644 and 1658, as the principal religious monument of the new capital of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, e... Read More
 10 Jun 2013 New Books
New Book:
Daniells’ India | Always twilight
Scenes from 18th century India seen through the eyes of two English traveller-painters
By Somak Ghoshal
Mint, 8 June 2013

Like hundreds of their countrymen, when Thomas and William Daniell, uncle and nephew, landed in Calcutta in 1786 from the far shor... Read More
 10 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
The Chalees Satoon in the Fort of Allahabad on the River Jumna - 1795

Plate 6 from the first set of Thomas Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery.' Of all the British artists who went to India in the 18th and 19th Centuries, it is Thomas and William Daniell who are the best known. Their work gives us a v... Read More
 10 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Plate 16 of 'Hindoo Excavations in the Mountain of Ellora near Aurangabad,' engraved by Thomas Daniell after the drawings of his deceased friend James Wales, which Daniell regarded as the sixth set of his 'Oriental Scenery.' This cave was started as a Buddhist monastery, but in the 8th Century wa... Read More
 28 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Panwell Bunder by Charles Harcourt Chambers, painting, watercolour on paper, India, 1824-28

This painting depicts a road leading inland from the sea. There are camels on the road. In the distance is a landscape, sea and ships. Bullocks sit under the trees in the foreground.

Once travellers ... Read More
 27 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Painting; watercolour, Houses and temple, Calcutta, ca. 1825

By a Calcutta artist, perhaps originally from Murshidabad.

The pictures made by Indian artists for the British in India are called Company paintings. Lieutenant-Colonel Gilbert, later Lieutenant-General Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert,... Read More
 27 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Painting by a British artist; George Landseer; Landscape with men and camels; India, 1860.

Pastel and watercolour on paper.

Landscape view with men and camels. A fort is situated on a mountain in the background, possibly the Fort of Hari Parbut in Kashmir.

George Landseer (1829–78) was a... Read More
 26 May 2013 Rare Paintings
A physician's wife and family in a carriage drawn by a camel ridden by a servant: suggesting the social importance of the physician, India
Coloured lithograph by F. Jones after Captain G.F. Atkinson.
Published: Day & Son, lithographers to the Queen

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