Rare Books and ManuscriptsFolio B 2024 18Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/2029489
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
Collective title and individual print titles from Abbey.Description based on the Abbey (YCBA) copy, in which each print has been trimmed at the image edge and mounted to an additional sheet of paper (48 x 61 cm).Each print is signed "T. Daniell fec." alongside the numbering and the place and date of publication.Abbey, J.R. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 492Sutton, T. Daniells: artists and travellers, pages 20-23BAC Folio B 2024 18: The Abbey copy. Hand-colored.
Contents:
No. 1. [The old fort, the playhouse, Holwell's Monument], 1786 -- No. 2. [The old court house and writer's buildings], 1786 -- No. 3. [Part of the old tank], 1786 -- No. 4. [Gentoo pagoda and house], 1787 -- No. 5. [The new court house and Chandpam Ghaut], 1787 -- No. 6. [The Old Fort Ghaut], 1787 -- No. 7. [The new buildings at Chouringhee], 1787 -- No. 8. [Calcutta from the River Hoogly; Gentoo buildings], 1788 -- No. 9. [Old court house and street looking south], 1788 -- No. 10. [Esplanade Row and the Council House], 1788 -- No. 11. [Old Government House], 1788 -- No. 12. [St. John's Church], 1788.
Exhibition History:
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31)
