Thomas Daniell was thirty-six years old when he and his nephew William, barely sixteen, sailed out from Gravesend in April 1785, headed for the East. They arrived in Calcutta via China the next year. The Daniells travelled across India, painting wherever they went. Their views were widely appreciated. Their work, most of which they turned into aquatints-issued in six series of two sets, each consisting of twelve views became a classic in its own days and has remained so. The Daniells returned to England in September 1794.
Science has had her adventurers', the Daniells wrote in A Picturesque Voyage to India by the way of China, and philanthropy her achievements: the shores of Asia have been invaded by a race of students with no rapacity but for lettered relics; by naturalists, whose cruelty extends not to one human inhabitant; by philosophers, ambitious only for the extirpation of error, and the diffusion of truth. It remains for the artist to claim his part in these guiltless spoliations, and to transport to Europe the picturesque beauties of these favoured regions.'
This special book presents an exquisite selection of the Daniells' work in India, bringing alive the scenery and architecture of that age.
BN Goswamy, distinguished art historian, is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the Punjab University, Chandigarh. A leading authority on Indian art, his work covers a wide range and is regarded, especially in the area of Indian painting. as having influenced much thinking.
Author of a number of books some of which have acquired iconic status, Prof. Goswamy has been Visiting Professor at leading Universities of the world, including those of Heidelberg.
Pennsylvania, UC at Berkeley and Los Angeles, Texas at Austin, Zurich, and at the Federal University of Switzerland also at Zurich. He has been responsible for curating a number of International exhibitions, like those at Paris, Zurich, San Francisco, and San Diego. Most recently, he co-curated the path-breaking exhibition, Masters of Indian Painting 1100-1900, which has been shown at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Professor Goswamy is the recipient of many honours, including the Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship, the Rietberg Award for Outstanding Research in Art History, the Padma Shri (1998) and the Padma Bhushan (2008) from the President of India.
The National Archives of India, currently headed by Prof. Mushirul Hasan, is the repository of the non-current records of the Government of India and is holding them in trust for the use of administrators and scholars. It is an Attached Office of the Ministry of Culture. It was set up in March 1891 in Calcutta as the Imperial Record Department and subsequent to the transfer of the capital from Calcutta to New Delhi in 1911 it was shifted to its present building in 1926.
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