File:Ghaut of Cutwa, on the Ganges - British Library X757(3).jpg
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Ghaut of Cutwa, on the Ganges ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q28856974
artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q69686100 |
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Title |
Ghaut of Cutwa, on the Ganges |
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Object type |
print object_type QS:P31,Q11060274 |
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Description |
"Ghaut of Cutwa, on the Ganges." This is plate 3 from Charles Ramus Forrest's 'A Picturesque tour along the rivers Ganges and Jumna, in India'. Forrest was an East India Company official who made excursions along the rivers, producing drawings "attentively copied from nature, and in many instances coloured on the spot, ... while the magic effects of the scenes represented were still impressed on [his] mental vision". Forrest writes that he once had occasion "to proceed on duty from Calcutta to Berhampore on the Cossimbazar river, a branch of the Ganges, which, uniting with another, the Jellinghy, at Nuddea, forms the Hooghly river, which descends to Calcutta". He stopped near the village of Cutwah, situated on the right bank of the Hoogly. It has many ghats or flights of steps leading to the river, one of which is shown here leading from the temple. Some of the larger boats used for the transport of merchandise are also depicted. |
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Depicted place | Cutwah | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1824 date QS:P571,+1824-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium |
lithograph medium QS:P186,Q15123870 |
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Dimensions |
height: 33.5 cm (13.1 in); width: 27.2 cm (10.7 in) dimensions QS:P2048,33.5U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,27.2U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q23308 |
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Accession number |
X757(3) |
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Place of creation | London | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer |
https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019xzz000000757u00003000.html www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/dailylife_drawings/forrehttp://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/dailylife_drawings/forrest/forrest.htmlst/forrest.html |
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