Chitpore Road and ‘Black Pagoda’, Calcutta. Artist(s): Prinsep, Thomas (1800-1830)
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Chitpore Road and ‘Black Pagoda’ c.1829. Inscribed on album page: ‘Calcutta, Noubruttun-Chitpoor Bazaar’. Water-colour; 18.5 by 21.8 cm. Note: The Black Pagoda, built in 1731 by Govindram Mitter, the ‘Black Zamindar’ (1720-56). In the view published by the Daniells, ‘Views of Calcutta’, 1786...
Circular Road, Calcutta. Artist(s): Prinsep, Thomas (1800-1830)
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Circular Road, Calcutta, c.1827-8. Inscribed: ‘An unfinished sketch by Tom of the Circular Road; a mosque, a hakuree, a Kuranchee or hackney coach, a police tannah or station for chowkeydars’. Water-colour; 23 by 33 cm.
The Salt Water Lake, east of Calcutta, crowded with boats, with the city in the distance.. Artist(s): Prinsep, Thomas (1800-1830)
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The Salt Water Lake, east of Calcutta, crowded with boats, c.1827-8. Inscribed on album page: ‘Salt Water Lake. Hollowed date trees as canoes, The Sunderbund wood boats, Calcutta in extreme distance’. Water-colour; 17.5 by 32.5 cm. Note: Prinsep published a ‘Survey of the Salt Lake or Marshe...
The river Ganges near Bhagalpur, the steamer ‘Hooghly’ on the river, Sept/Oct 1828. Artist(s): Prinsep, Thomas (1800-1830)
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The river Ganges near Bhagalpur, the steamer ‘Hooghly’ on the river, Sept/Oct 1828. Inscribed on album page: ‘Ganges near Buglipoor’. Water-colour; 10 by 14.5 cm. Note: Thomas Prinsep was attached to the first experimental voyage, to Allahabad, of a wooden paddle steamer on the Ganges. The ‘...
'Kurrachee Cantonment from the riding ground on the left of camp. 28th October 1840'. On reverse a military encampment. Artist(s): Studdert, Thomas (1812-1855)
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'Kurrachee Cantonment from the riding ground on the left of camp. 28th October 1840'. On reverse a military encampment. Artist(s): Studdert, Thomas (1812-1855)
'Kurrachee Cantonment continued'. A continuation of the previous drawing to the right. On reverse a watercolour of a seated Sindhi inscribed in Persian; 'Abdallah Khan'. Artist(s): Studdert, Thomas (1812-1855)
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'Kurrachee Cantonment continued'. A continuation of the previous drawing to the right. On reverse a watercolour of a seated Sindhi inscribed in Persian; 'Abdallah Khan'. Artist(s): Studdert, Thomas (1812-1855)
A general view of the modern temple, great rock sculptures and caves, Mahabalipuram. Artist(s): Gantz, John (1772-1853)
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A general view of the modern temple, great rock sculptures and caves. Inscribed: ‘N.’ ‘Easterly View of the Village Pagodas and adjacent Mountain Mahabalipoorum from an Original sketch by Mr Braddock. J. Gantz’. Note: John Braddock was born in London, arriving in India in August 1813 to work...
