Gate of the Loll-Baug at Fyzabad - Daniell, Thomas R.A. (1749-1840) and Daniell, William (1769-1837).
Published by Thomas Daniell, Howland Street, Fitzroy Square, London 1801-1803.Hand-coloured aquatint by Thomas and William Daniell after drawings by them both. A fine impression on thick Whatman paper with rich, unfaded colour, wide untrimmed margins and platemark. 570 x 760mm. (22.5 x 30ins) overall.
From Oriental Scenery (Part 3, plate 3), October 1801: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan. Drawn and Engraved by Thomas Daniell, and with permission respectfully dedicated to the Honorable Court of Directors/of the East India Company.
Written on 11 and 12 July 1789, ‘Loll Bhaugh is the name given to a garden made by Nawaub Sujah al Dowla. The gate is elegantly designed, and highly enriched with ornaments: its principal apartment is over the entrance, to which are attached two balconies; the roof is flat and terraced. The surrounding wall is of stone stuccoed, and at the angles are pavilions of an octagonal form. This garden is at a considerable distance from the palace, a circumstance not unusual with the opulent of India; places of this description, which may be truly called pleasure gardens, are generally large, intersected by straight paved walks, bordered with shrubs and flowers, and contain a variety of the most delicate fruits; they are embellished with several very elegant pavilions, where the master occasionally seats himself to enjoy his Hooka, singing, dancing, &c. to which may also be added the exercise of swinging, whirling in the Hindola, and various other similar amusements, with which the Indians are much delighted. Fyzabad is eighty-five miles east of Lucknow’.
Fyzabad or Faizabad in the modern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (formerly United Provinces) is 78 miles east of Lucknow by rail.
Abbey Travel 420 no. 79. J.R. Abbey, Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, from the library of J.R. Abbey: a bibliographical catalogue. London 1957.