Title
WESTERN ENTRANCE OF FORT ST GEORGE. : NO. XII. / 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, September 1798.
Physical details
1 print : etching and aquatint with hand-colouring ; platemark 48.2 x 65.2 cm, on sheet 53.7 x 72 cm.
Description
View of a fort with British flag on flagpole, seen from a riverbank, with figures and two zebus at the water; two figures standing and one seated at right on the side of a road leading to a humpback bridge with arches, on which are figures carrying palanquins and goods, riders, an elephant and a camel; trees on opposite bank at left.
Place
Chennai (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).