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Lot 64 Details
Absolute Tuesdays: Old Maps and Vintage Prints 13 February 2024
The Water-Fall...
Original hand-coloured aquatint on paper
View Dimensions Without mount: 18 x 23.6 in (45.8 x 60 cm)With mount: 24.3 x 29.9 in (61.8 x 76 cm)Plate 2 from Part 4 of the book Oriental Scenery. Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan Drawn and Engraved by Thomas Daniell, and With Permission Respectfully Dedicated to the Honourable Court of Directors of the East India Company.The Daniells embarked on three excursions together. The first was an arduous voyage that started in Calcutta and took them to Delhi via the Indo-Gangetic Plain, up into the Garhwal Himalayas, and back to Calcutta via Lucknow. They then travelled through what are now Tamil Nadu and Karnataka on their trip across the south. The present lot is one such work that they did on there tour to South. After that, they set sail for Bombay and saw numerous Maharashtrian rock-cut temples. 'Upon turning the angle of a hill, which rose abruptly from the valley, the fall burst suddenly upon our sight. It was indeed a magnificent spectacle. The impression excited was so uncommon, that I was obliged to close my eyes for a moment, in order to recover from the sudden and almost astounding surprise. Though the roar of the cataract had been long heard before we reached it, so that we were not unprepared for something more than commonly imposing, the reality far transcended our expectations. It is precipitated from a height of one hundred and fifty feet, pouring over the steep a prodigious body of water, which, forcing its way betwixt intervening rocks, among which it boils and hisses with tremendous energy, falls into the deep, dark pool beneath with a din and turbulence that are almost deafening. ... There is a tremendous vortex just below the fall, caused by its sudden and violent pressure upon the surface below, so that no one can safely approach within reach of the spray. The waters of this spot are highly sacred, Puppanassum, the name which the place bears, signifying the washing away of sins. A great number of devotees are to be seen at all times bathing in this consecrated river. ... By the side of this celebrated fall there is a rock which is most highly venerated. It is covered with a rude bas-relief, before which pilgrims and other visitants to these holy waters prostrate themselves performing at the same time the most grotesque gesticulations that can be imagined. Fakeers are also to be found—and where are they not in India?—among the swarms of fanatics who daily practise their fantastic ceremonials before these mystical sculptures.' (The Oriental Annual, London, 1834, vol. I, pp.61-2)During their tour of South India in 1792–1793 the Daniells stopped at the falls in the then unmapped Tinnevelly District of Tamil Nadu. There are three other pictures of the Falls by Thomas Daniell: the larger variant in the Victoria Memorial, Calcutta (Shellim, TD28, painted in 1792 and included in the Madras Lottery in 1793), and two more distant views (TD42, painted and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1800, and TD78, painted and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1812). Of the numerous drawings, most dated from 31 July to 2 August 1792, see the book by M Shellim, The Daniells in India and the waterfall at Papanasam, Calcutta, 1970, p.31-3 accompanied with this lot.Maurice Shellim, The Daniells in India and the waterfall at Papanasam, Calcutta, The Stateman Ltd., 197079 pages including black and white plates and maps; beige cloth boards, blue titles to spine, pictorial dust jacket, red background, black & white picture of the The Waterfall at Papanasam by Randall Morgan to the front cover11 x 9 x 0.7 inches (28 x 23 x 2 cm)This work will be shipped unframedNON-EXPORTABLE
Winning bid $2,892 Rs 2,40,000 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
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Lot 65 Details
Absolute Tuesdays: Old Maps and Vintage Prints 28 February 2023
South East View...
Colour aquatint on paper
View Dimensions Print size: 17.75 x 23.5 in (45.3 x 60 cm) Sheet size: 19 x 25.5 in (48.5 x 65 cm)
Winning bid $3,259 Rs 2,64,000 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
Lot 26 Details
Absolute Tuesdays: Design Edition 26 April 2022
Set of 2 prints...
a) Madras, Entrée Occidentale du fort ...
View Dimensions b) Vue du fort St. George a Madras prise a lest Circa 1820sLater hand-coloured aquatint on paperWithout mount: 9 x 11.25 in (22.3 x 28.5 cm)With mount: 14.5 x 16.5 in (36.7 x 42.3 cm)(Set of two)These works will be shipped mounted NON-EXPORTABLE
Winning bid $486 Rs 36,000 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
Lot 3 Details
Friday Five 22 April 2022
The Sacred Tree...
View Dimensions Print size: 18 x 23.5 in (46 x 59.5 cm) Sheet size: 19.25 x 24.5 in (49 x 62 cm)
Winning bid $2,898 Rs 2,14,440 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
Lot 10 Details
Hindoostan Illustrated: Absolute Tuesdays 27 July 2021
Set of two...
a) J C Stadler after Thomas...
View Dimensions b) J C Stadler after Thomas DaniellA View of Ossoore1804Colour aquatint on paper12.25 x 16.5 in (31.5 x 42 cm)"Plate nine from '24 views in Indostan by William Orme'. This picture is based on an original by Thomas Daniell (1749-1840) and depicts Hosur, a small town near to Bangalore. When this picture was made there was an encampment, represented in the distance, consisting of a detachment of Lord Cornwallis's army commanded by Major Woodburne of Madras. According to the accompanying text, the temple on the right in the foreground was used as a resting place to 'afford cool and comfortable retreats for sun-burnt travellers." (Source: British Library Board)
Winning bid $426 Rs 31,080 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
Lot 20 Details
Tremal Naig`s...
17.75 x 23.5 in
Winning bid $2,036 Rs 1,48,650 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
Lot 73 Details
The Western...
18.5 x 24.5 in
Winning bid $5,129 Rs 3,74,400 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
Lot 5 Details
Absolute Tuesdays: Decorative Arts 3 November 2020
Hindoo Temples...
Hand-coloured aquatint on paper
18.25 x 23.25 in
Winning bid $2,386 Rs 1,72,950 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
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