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WD4379
- Record Id:
- 040-003287788
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003287772
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028184975.0x000011
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143421593.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD4379
- Title:
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Distant view of Benares with two men catching turtles in the foreground from the Mandakini tank.. Artist(s): Prinsep, James (1799-1840)
- Scope & Content:
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Distant view of Benares with two men catching turtles in the foreground.
Inscribed on reverse: ‘City from the NW corner of the Mundakinee Tulao, 10 Oct 1826’.
Water-colour; 17.6 by 26.5 cm.
Purchased 1993.
Note: Reproduced in ‘Benares illustrated’, lithographed by J.D. Harding. The tank was drained by Prinsep, 'The Mundakinee being stocked with turtles, which where looked upon with veneration, and regularly fed by the Hindoos, a merchant volunteered to pay two annas a head for all that should be removed alive into the river upon the draining of the tank. The number thus caught and transplanted exceeded 1500 ....'.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003287772
040-003287788 - Is part of:
- PRINSEP, JAMES (1799-1840) : PRINSEP, JAMES (1799-1840) Seventh son of John Prinsep, brother of William (q.v.). Assistant Assay Master,…
WD4379 : Distant view of Benares with two men catching turtles in the foreground from the Mandakini tank.. Artist(s): Prinsep, James (1799-1840) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003287772[0016]/040-003287788
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: PRINSEP, JAMES (1799-1840)
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143421593.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1826
- End Date:
- 1826
- Date Range:
- 1826
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour
- Finding Aids:
- Patricia Kattenhorn, British drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1969) Volume III, 260-261
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)