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Lot 293*

The Rock of Trichinopoly, the River Cauvery in the foreground
Company School, or perhaps by a European hand, after an aquatint by Thomas Daniell, first quarter of the 19th Century

8 April 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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The Rock of Trichinopoly, the River Cauvery in the foreground
Company School, or perhaps by a European hand, after an aquatint by Thomas Daniell, first quarter of the 19th Century

pencil and watercolour on European paper stamped Ganson and Montgolfier on reverse, black margin rules
358 x 510 mm.

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Provenance:
Private collection: acquired in Washington DC in 1986.

Closely modelled on an aquatint in Thomas Daniell's Oriental Scenery, II, 19; illustrated in M. Archer, Early Views of India: the picturesque journeys of Thomas and William Daniell 1786-1794, London 1980, fig. 108.

The Rock of Trichinopoly and the fort at its summit was a popular subject for the British, after military successes in that region in the mid-18th Century, aside from its topographical and aesthetic appeal. Thomas Daniell depicted the subject in four aquatints.

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