Color printed aquatint with hand finishing by and after Thomas Daniell, on wove paper from "Oriental Scenery", this colored aquatint is titled "Dusasumade Gaut, at Bernares, on the Ganges", a view of one of the main bathing steps in Benares, or Varanasi in modern times, on the banks of the Ganges. Bottom right reads: Drawn and Engraved by Thos. Daniell, center Published as the Art directs for Thos. Daniell by Robt. Bowyer at the Historic Gallery Pall Mall May 1796. Plate number XVI, image with text apprx 18-1/4" x 23-3/4". Watermark in paper of "1794". Paper measures overall apprx 21-1/4" x 29-1/4". Daniell was elected an Academician in 1790 and a fellow of the Royal Society.
800/1,500 Sold $632.50
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