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WD1305

Record Id:

040-003288201

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003288181

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100028184975.0x0001ae

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100137997270.0x000001

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

WD1305

Title:

Temples on hill top at Trinchicanom (Madras). Artist(s): Salt, Henry (1780-1827)

Scope & Content:

Wash drawing by Henry Salt (1780-1827) of temples on the hill top at Tirukalikkunram in Tamil Nadu, dated 1804.

This is the original drawing for 'Pagodas at Trinchicunum', plate 11, of Henry Salt's 'Twenty Four Views in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt'. During their travels through Tamil Nadu Viscount Valentia kept to the coast road and therefore Salt visited the sacred hill alone as he made his way independently from Pondicherry to Mahabalipuram. He wrote: "[The Chief Brahmin] resides on the hill, where the Pagoda has the appearance of a fortification and would in fact be extremely difficult of approach, were it not for a handsome flight of steps cut in the rock. The Pagodas below consist, as usual of a lofty wall of stone, and having gateways of a pyramidal form, ending in something like a sarcophagus. These are surrounded by groves of cocoa-nut, mango and tamarind trees."

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003288181
040-003288201

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SALT, HENRY (1780-1827) : SALT, HENRY (1780-1827) Artist, traveller and collector of antiquities. Salt went to London in 1797 and became a pupil,…

WD1305 : Temples on hill top at Trinchicanom (Madras). Artist(s): Salt, Henry (1780-1827)

Hierarchy:

032-003288181[0020]/040-003288201

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: SALT, HENRY (1780-1827)

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 Item

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Styles:

British school
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Start Date:

1804

End Date:

1804

Date Range:

1804

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