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Attributed to Robert Melville (Capt.) Grindlay (British, 1786-1877) The Daulatabad Fort and the Chand Minar tower in Maharashtra, India image 1
Attributed to Robert Melville (Capt.) Grindlay (British, 1786-1877) The Daulatabad Fort and the Chand Minar tower in Maharashtra, India image 2
Attributed to Robert Melville (Capt.) Grindlay (British, 1786-1877) The Daulatabad Fort and the Chand Minar tower in Maharashtra, India image 3
Lot 79

Attributed to Robert Melville
(Capt.) Grindlay (British, 1786-1877)
The Daulatabad Fort and the Chand Minar tower in Maharashtra, India

7 – 15 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £2,816 inc. premium

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Attributed to Robert Melville (Capt.) Grindlay (British, 1786-1877)

The Daulatabad Fort and the Chand Minar tower in Maharashtra, India
numbered 'N.71' (verso, upper right) and inscribed 'Doulutabad/A strong fortress the repository of the jewels and treasure of the Sultans/of the South of India-' (verso, lower right)
watercolour heightened with bodycolour
39.4 x 53.3cm (15 1/2 x 21in).

Footnotes

Captain Robert Melville Grindlay served in the Bombay Native Infantry, the military arm of the East India Company, from 1804 to 1820. Grindlay kept a detailed personal journal of his time in India and made numerous sketches and paintings of his travels across the Indian subcontinent. His original sketches were used in Scenery, Costumes and Architecture, Chiefly on the Western Side of India, first published by R. Ackerman in 1826. However, some of Grindlay's sketches were handed over to professional artists to be worked up into finished compositions. Those artists included William Westall, William Daniell, David Roberts, Clarkson Stanfield, Copley Fielding and George Cruikshank. The plates were engraved and coloured with unusual care, with etching by one hand supplemented by engraving by another.

It is thought that the present work was the sketch later worked up by William Daniell (with some alterations), which in turn was engraved by R. G. Reeve and published under the title 'Dowlutabad the ancient Deo Gurh'.

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