Hindu temples at Bindraban on the river Jumna, India. Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795, after himself.

  • Daniell, Thomas, 1749-1840.
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March 1795
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27302i
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Hindu temples at Bindraban on the river Jumna, India. Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795, after himself. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Humphry Repton used this aquatint in his design of 1806 for an aviary for the Royal Pavilion at Brighton

Brindaban is the sacred city where Krishna spent his childhood. Temples were built beside the river Jumna across which the baby Krishna had been carried at night

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London (Historic Gallery Pall Mall) : Published as the act directs for Tho[ma]s Daniell by Rob[er]t Bowyer, March 1795.

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1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; platemark 47.8 x 62.6 cm.

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Hindoo temples at Bindrabund on the river Jumna ; drawn and engraved by Thomas Daniell Bears number bottom right: II

References note

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, 420.3
Mildred Archer, Early views of India, London 1980, reproduced as no. 32

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Wellcome Collection 27302i

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