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WD1012
- Record Id:
- 032-003267994
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003267994
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x00115b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100137996908.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD1012
- Title:
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The Ganges Canal, Roorkee, Saharanpur District (U.P.). Artist(s): Simpson, William (1823-1899)
- Scope & Content:
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The Ganges Canal, Roorkee, Saharanpur District (U.P.). 1863.
Inscribed on front in ink: ‘Ganges Canal, Roorkee. Wm Simpson. 1863.’
Purchased 4 November 1956.
Note: The Ganges Canal was opened by Lord Dalhousie in April 1854.
Watercolour of the Ganges Canal at Roorkee in the Saharanpur District of Uttar Pradesh, by William Simpson dated 1863.
The building of the Ganges Canal was commenced in 1840 by Sir Proby Cautley and it was opened by Lord Dalhousie in April 1854. Roorkee, situated on the main line of the Oudh (Avadh) and Rohilkhand Railway, was a cantonment and the headquarters of Roorkee tahsil (adninistrative district). The Upper Ganges Canal passed between the town and the cantonment, where two heavy batteries of artillery and the Bengal sappers and miners were stationed. The Imperial Gazetteer of India states, "It is now a fair sized town, with broad metalled roadways meeing at right angles, and lined with excellent shops. It is also provided with good saucer drains, which are flushed with water pumped from the canal. A short distance above the town the Ganges Canal is carried over the wide bed of the Solani by a magnificent brick aqueduct."
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003267994
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003267994
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100137996908.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1863
- End Date:
- 1863
- Date Range:
- 1863
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour. 34.4 x 50.2 cm
- Finding Aids:
- Mildred Archer, British drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1969) Volume I-II, 636
- Exhibitions:
- The Raj: India and the British, National Portrait Gallery, London, 14 October 1990 - 17 March 1991
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)