
Oliver White
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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.