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WD1297
- Record Id:
- 040-003288193
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003288181
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028184975.0x0001a6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100137997237.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD1297
- Title:
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Calcutta: view taken from the house of Thomas Graham in Chowringhee with Fort William and the Hooghly in the background. January or February 1803. Artist(s): Salt, Henry (1780-1827)
- Scope & Content:
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Calcutta: view taken from the house of Thomas Graham in Chowringhee with Fort William and the Hooghly in the background. January or February 1803.
Note: Drawing for 'Calcutta', plate 3, ‘Views.’ Described Valentia, i, 61-3, 235-9.
The drawing is a preparatory work for plate 3 'Calcutta' of his 'Twenty Four Views in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt'. This view was taken from Thomas Graham's house in Chowringhee with Fort William and the River Hooghly in the background. Viscount Valentia wrote, "Mr Graham resides in Chouringee, in a very excellent house, where I found apartments prepared for me, and for Mr Salt...Chouringee, an entire village of palaces, runs for a considerable length at right angles with it [the Maidan], and altogether, forms the finest view I ever beheld in any city."
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003288181
040-003288193 - 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,…
WD1297 : Calcutta: view taken from the house of Thomas Graham in Chowringhee with Fort William and the Hooghly in the background. January or… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003288181[0012]/040-003288193
- 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_100137997237.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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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; engraving, proof. 42 x 60 cm
- Finding Aids:
- Mildred Archer, British drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1969) Volume I-II, 629
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)