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- Record Id:
- 040-003288184
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003288181
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028184975.0x00019d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100137996887.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD100
- Title:
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The Fort, Chunar (U.P.). 12 September 1803. Artist(s): Salt, Henry (1780-1827)
- Scope & Content:
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The Fort, Chunar (U.P.). 12 September 1803.
Inscribed on back in pencil: ‘Chunar. Sept. 12th’; and on front: ‘Sept. 12th. 20.’
Note: Described Valentia, i, 213-4.
Pen-and-ink and wash drawing by Henry Salt (1780-1827) of the Fort at Chunar in Uttar Pradesh, dated 12th September 1803.
Viscount Valentia (George Annesley) wrote, "The approach to Chunar is marked by a chain of low hills, running parallel to the river on its right bank, which is covered by plantations and bungelows. The fort itself is situated on a rock, which rises abruptly from the plain, and advances some distance into the river. It is fortified in the Indian manner by walls and towers, one below the other, and is a place of considerable strength. It was of great importance in former times; but as the British frontier has been carried further north, Monghyr and Allahabad have each in their turn superseded it as a military department. A sepoy came off to meet us in a boat, with a book, in which we entered our names, and number of boats: every passenger is obliged to do so, as the batteries completely command the navigation of the river, and allow no boat to go up or down without this ceremony."
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003288181
040-003288184 - Is part of:
- SALT, HENRY (1780-1827) : SALT, HENRY (1780-1827) Artist, traveller and collector of antiquities. Salt went to London in 1797 and became a pupil,…
WD100 : The Fort, Chunar (U.P.). 12 September 1803. Artist(s): Salt, Henry (1780-1827) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003288181[0003]/040-003288184
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: SALT, HENRY (1780-1827)
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100137996887.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1803
- End Date:
- 1803
- Date Range:
- 1803
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: pen-and-ink; wash. 28.5 x 46.1 cm
- Finding Aids:
- Mildred Archer, British drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1969) Volume I-II, 628
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)