The Kanheri caves on the island of Salsette, near Bombay, Maharashtra. Coloured aquatint by Thomas and William Daniell, 1800.

  • Daniell, Thomas, 1749-1840.
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1 June 1800
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27880i
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Oriental scenery
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The European shown sketching in this image may be James Wales (1747-1795), through whom the Daniells had come to know about many of the rock-cut temples of Western India. During his time in India, Wales had been making drawings and plans with the intention of publishing an illustrated work on the antiquities of India when he returned to England. However, on a visit to the Kanheri caves in 1795, Wales caught a fever from which he eventually died. The Daniells fulfilled some of his ambitions when they used his drawings as the basis of the last two parts of their series Oriental scenery. Archer op. cit.

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London (Howland Street, Fitzroy Square) : Thomas Daniell, 1 June 1800.

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1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; platemark 48.5 x 65.5 cm.

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Part of the Kanaree caves, Salsette ; drawn & engraved by Tho[ma]s Daniell, R.A. & W[illia]m Daniell Bears number lower right : XI

References note

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1862 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, 420.62
Mildred Archer, Early views of India, London 1980, reproduced as no. 139

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Wellcome Collection 27880i

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