INTERIOR VIEW OF THE PLACE AT MADURAI

CODENO-TWD-13

MEDIUM -Aquatint (Mounted for Protection)

DESCRIPTION-Architecture, Antiquities and Landscape scenery of Hindoostan, reduced from their folio edition of the same work and carefullycopied under their direction, their direction, This Later coloured aquatint is mounted for added protection.

ARTIST DETAILS-THOMAS AND WILLIAM DANIELL -The Daniel’s, uncle and nephew, spent nine years traversing India, drawing and recording views and sites meticulously. On their return to London in 1794 they set about to produce one of the finest, most ambitious, and most influential series of aquatints: Oriental Scenery. It made 'a completely new contribution to British knowledge of India’. In addition to views familiar to early travellers are those made by Europeans for the first time, such as in the Garwhal mountains, and even the views of Madras are the first made by Europeans on the spot. The Daniells tapped a vein of nostalgia among colonial administrators, curiosity among European travellers (both active and armchair), and pride among the British for victorious military campaigns there. Their classical style of composition and use of a camera obscura ensured an unrivalled accuracy, which in turn facilitated the work's influence on other spheres of European art.