Brown wash, pen and brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 5/16 × 20 3/4 inches (36.4 × 52.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen, with brown ink, upper left: "Bridge & Patna Gate & Monghyr Fort."; inscribed in graphite, upper left, very faint: "Bridge [...] Monghyr Fort"; inscribed in graphite, verso, upper left: "Mellon 9925C"; Inscribed in graphite, verso, upper right: "(3)180R | W. Daniell. | Unpublished drawing for [...?] | 183"; inscribed in pen with brown ink, verso, lower center: "N.[36. crossed out with graphite] Bridge & Patna [tape covering inscription] Monghyr Fort"; inscribed in graphite, verso, center right: "0/6936/5/6P"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower right: "Daniel R.A. 1381 | No. 31"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1492
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
bridge (built work) | fort | trees | river | walls | domes | gate | arch | gateway | walking | fishing | men | road | ruins | moat | turbans | fishermen | sword | genre subject | architectural subject | camel (mammal)
Associated Places:
Ganges | Munger | Patna | Bihar | Munger Fort
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Company Culture (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-09-16 - 2004-01-05)
Publications:
Morna O'Neill, Company Culture:, British Artists and the East India Company 1770-1830: October 16, 2003-January 11, 2004 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2003, no. 20, V 1199 (YCBA)