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Gateway to a mosque, Chunar, Uttar Pradesh.

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Date

January 1797

Artist

Thomas Daniell (1749-1840)

Collection

Wellcome Library

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https://wellcomecollection.org/works/w4n6ak9e

Description

Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1797.
There is another, earlier, view of the same gateweay by William Hodges published in the series Select views in India with the lettering : "A View of a Mosque at Chunar Gur" - see ICV 51119. Reproduced in Archer on p. 99, where she compares the images Chunargarh, or Chunar, was a well-known landmark on the journey up and down the Ganges and many of the British stopped to explore the various buildings there. By the Daniells' time, the old Mughal fort on the cliff-top was used by the British as a European invalid station for wounded and sick soldiers. Archer op. cit.
Inscription: Gate leading to a Musjed, at Chunar Ghur ; drawn and engraved by Thomas Daniell

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image courtesy of Wellcome Library, London

Location

Tomb of Akbar the Great, Sikandra, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

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