Title
TREMAL NAIG'S CHOULTRY, MADURA. : NO. XVIII. / DRAWN BY THOS DANIELL ; ENGRAVED BY THOS & WM DANIELL.
Creator
Daniell, Thomas, 1749-1840, artist, printmaker, publisher.
Publication details
[London] : Published as the Act directs by Thos Daniell, Howland Street, Fitzroy Square, November 1798.
Physical details
1 print : etching and aquatint with hand-colouring ; platemark 48 x 64.8 cm, on sheet 53.9 x 72.1 cm.
Description
Figures standing and giving offerings inside the Pudu Mandapa; a long hall with piers carved with magnificent yalis (mythical animals), and portrait sculptures of the Nayaka rulers and their ministers; projecting brackets supporting the ceiling carved in the form of seated lions.
Place
Madurai (India)
Additional information
This set of prints are bound with 10.tab.30.(1). 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
Daniell, William, 1769-1837, printmaker.
Shelfmark
10 TAB.30.(2).