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Ramgur (Abbey 420 no.136; Archer IV, pl.10)
Dhuah Koonde (Abbey 420 no.137; Archer IV, pl.11)
hand-coloured aquatints, January 1804, thick paper. light spotting and surface soiling to margins
P.485 x 650mm.
19 January 1790:"The bad road was of great continuance, however we got our horses down very well without any accident-arrived at Ramgur about 12 o C.". Ramgarh, in the district of Benares, was obviously somewhat dilapidated. As Thomas Daniell commented, it had "at some remote period seen better days".
The Daniells' halted at Dhuan Kund, "The Pool of Smoke", in February 1790 on their way down to the Son river. Although considering it "superstitious folly", Thomas Daniell observed that water was "in hot climates particularly, ...an obvious source of endless comforts and advantages" and would therefore naturally attract "fabricators of mythological systems,...the sacred fluid believed capable of washing away the blemishes of sin". (2)
Dhuah Koonde (Abbey 420 no.137; Archer IV, pl.11)
hand-coloured aquatints, January 1804, thick paper. light spotting and surface soiling to margins
P.485 x 650mm.
19 January 1790:"The bad road was of great continuance, however we got our horses down very well without any accident-arrived at Ramgur about 12 o C.". Ramgarh, in the district of Benares, was obviously somewhat dilapidated. As Thomas Daniell commented, it had "at some remote period seen better days".
The Daniells' halted at Dhuan Kund, "The Pool of Smoke", in February 1790 on their way down to the Son river. Although considering it "superstitious folly", Thomas Daniell observed that water was "in hot climates particularly, ...an obvious source of endless comforts and advantages" and would therefore naturally attract "fabricators of mythological systems,...the sacred fluid believed capable of washing away the blemishes of sin". (2)