Title
EASTERN GATE OF THE JUMMAH MUSJID AT DELHI. : NO1. / DRAWN AND ENGRAVED BY THOS DANIELL.
Creator
Daniell, Thomas, 1749-1840, artist, printmaker.
Publication details
[London] : PUBLISHED AS THE ACT DIRECTS FOR THOS DANIELL BY ROBT BOWYER AT THE HISTORIC GALLERY PALL MALL, MARCH 1795.
Physical details
1 print : etching and aquatint with hand-colouring ; platemark 47.9 x 62.2 cm, on sheet 53.2 x 71.7 cm.
Description
View of the entrance gate to the Jama Masjid mosque in Delhi, with figures standing and walking up the steps; minaret behind the wall in background at right; procession in foreground, with dignitaries travelling under baldachins on the back of an elephant at centre, accompanied by another elephant and soldiers, some on horsebacks; men carrying a bed on poles at far right; other buildings in the distance at left.
Place
Delhi (India)
Additional information
This set of prints are bound with 10.tab.30.(2). and 10.tab.30.(3). Published in parts. 3 vol. of plates bound into one volume: ORIENTAL SCENERY (1795); ORIENTAL SCENERY (1797); ANTIQUITIES OF INDIA (1799). 3 vol. of descriptive letterpress at 280.e.42. This volume comprises 24 views and one aquatinted title sheet.
Other persons
Bowyer, Robert, 1758-1834, publisher.
Shelfmark
10 TAB.30.(1).