Title
View within the Southern Entrance of GUNDECOTTA PASS. / Francis Jukes Howland Street Aquatinta fecit. ; Drawn on the Spot by Lt Anburey of the Corps of Engineers.
Creator
Jukes, Francis, 1745-1812, printmaker, publisher.
Publication details
[London] ; [Bengal] : Published according to Act of Parliament Jan 1st 1799 by Thos. Anburey Bengal & by F. Jukes, Howland Street London, [January 1 1799]
Physical details
1 print : aquatint and etching with hand-colouring ; platemark 38.7 x 54 cm, on sheet 44.6 x 60.8 cm.
Description
Pennar river near the Gandikota fort in Kadapa District of Andhra Pradesh; landscape with a steep, rocky cliff on the left, along which a caravan with soldiers and elephants and men on horseback, are passing, through a cut in the mountain, with a tree-covered, rocky cliff on the right, water on the right and a man on horseback with two soldiers on the sandy shore in the left foreground.
Place
Andhra Pradesh (India)
Additional information
This series was advertised in 'THE MONTHLY EPITOME CATALOGUE OF NEW PUBLICATIONS', January-December 1798, Vol. II, London 1799, page 439, as being 12 pounds, 12 shillings (12 guineas) for the hand-coloured set. The original drawing by Anburey on which this print is based is in the Yale Centre for British Art B1977.14.6087.
Other persons
Anburey, Thomas, artist, publisher.
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.115.20.1.b.