Description
Credit: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Inscription
Signed in brown ink, lower left: "Wm Daniell". Inscribed in graphite, lower centre: "Great Bull & pagoda Tangore | length of the Bull 16 [...] I Height 12' 6""; inscribed on back in brown ink, upper left: "9925 Mellon B | [illegible inscription]"; in graphite, upper centre: "No 2 (encircled)"; in graphite, upper right: "(3) 18 | 3 original [...] drawing | by William Daniell for | Oriental survey. c. 1798 | Abbey Travel No. 420 | (Part 2, no. 48) | See O. S. Vol II plate XXII | for which this is a sketch"; in brown ink, centre left: "[...] Bull & Pagoda Tanjore"; in graphite, centre: "Length of the B[...] 16 | 16.2 | Height | 12.6"; in graphite, centre right: "0/6 936/16 | 1381".
Descriptive Medium
Grey wash and graphite
Image Licence
Public Domain, Yale Center for British Art
Image Credit
image credit Yale Center for British Art
Location
Thanjavur Brihdeswara Fort, Balaganapathy Nagar, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India
Country
India
Tags
Category
Buildings & Architecture
