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Henry Salt: Temples on hill top at Trinchicanom (Madras)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Henry Salt  (1780–1827)  wikidata:Q733780 s:en:Author:Henry Salt
 
Henry Salt
Alternative names
Salt
Description British diplomat, egyptologist, archaeologist, painter, botanist and drawer
Date of birth/death 14 June 1780 / 30 October 1780 Edit this at Wikidata 30 October 1827 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Lichfield Desouk
Work location
Abyssinia (modern Ethiopia) and Egypt
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artist QS:P170,Q733780
Title
Temples on hill top at Trinchicanom (Madras)
Object type print
object_type QS:P31,Q11060274
Description
English: Temples on hill top at Trinchicanom (Madras)

This aquatint was made into plate 11 of Henry Salt's 'Twenty Four Views in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt'. The sacred hill at Tirukkalikunram in Tamil Nadu must have been seen by Salt as he made his way to Mahabalipuram from Pondicherry. He wrote: "[The Chief Brahmin] resides on the hill, where the Pagoda has the appearance of a fortification and would in fact be extremely difficult of approach, were it not for a handsome flight of steps cut in the rock. The Pagodas below consist, as usual of a lofty wall of stone, and having gateways of a pyramidal form, ending in something like a sarcophagus. These are surrounded by groves of cocoa-nut, mango and tamarind trees."

Plate from, Henry Salt's 'Twenty Four Views in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, Abyssinia and Egypt', from drawings made by Henry Salt, Esq. during his travels with Lord Valentia.

Originally published/produced in 1809.
Depicted place Tiruchirapalli Rock Fort
Date 1804
date QS:P571,+1804-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium lithograph
medium QS:P186,Q15123870
Dimensions height: 46.8 cm (18.4 in); width: 62.2 cm (24.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,46.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,62.2U174728
institution QS:P195,Q23308
Accession number
WD1305
Place of creation Tiruchirapalli Rock Fort
Credit line British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
Source/Photographer https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019wdz000001305u00000000.html
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