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India - dream of a better life for Thomas Daniell. India - palaces, Hindu temples, Far East, oriental exoticism. India - shaken by wars, famines, poverty, devastation, social dislocation, resistance to the conquerors. India - object of desire for the British East India Company, trading company for the colonization of the Indian subcontinent.
In 1784, Thomas Daniell, a skilled painter of coats of arms and landscapes, receives permission from the East India Company to work in Calcutta as an engraver. India can be a good market for the artist: Pictures show the foreign country, create a link between the distant subcontinent and the British homeland, at the same time serve their desires and dreams of oriental exoticism, of magnificent buildings like from the fairy tales of 1001 nights. But pictures also show the new colonial architecture that is just emerging, the administrative buildings of the British and document the British claim to power in India. And last but not least, pictures decorate the residences of the British, the "expatriates", in Calcutta. For seven years, until 1793, Thomas Daniell and his 16-year-old nephew William Daniell traveled through India, which at that time meant: on foot or on horseback, with ox carts, in a boat, up the Ganges from Calcutta to Srinagar, from Madras across Mysore and finally to Bombay. Her sketches and watercolors show intimidatingly "modern" English barracks and government residences, depict exotic palaces, mausoleums, pagodas, monuments, ruins, temples, often transfigured into fairy tales and superficially nothing but picturesquely placed amidst the "exotic" Indian landscape. Hardly once do people appear in them, and if they do, then usually only dimly. In her city views, Calcutta is a generous, dazzlingly white city in the neoclassical style. No trace in her pictures of war and misery (but in the diaries of William Daniell).
Their Indian buildings, set as landmarks in the landscape, look like architectural models - and there's a reason for that: a camera obscura allowed them to view objects at great distances in detail and perspective - almost like taking a photograph. Through a hole in the wall of a locked, dark room or box, the light beam penetrates and "casts" the inverted but very accurate image onto the opposite wall or screen. This helps capture proportions, outlines and points correctly for the human eye on a surface, in 2D. The Daniells made a drawing right on the spot and produced oil paintings, engravings, and aquatint etchings, "painterly" ink-like etchings with strong color gradients, from some of the designs while still in Calcutta. Great examples of this process include Francisco de Goya's "Caprichos."
However, sales of their artwork did not go as well as expected in India, plus the Daniells were in failing health. Back in England, they created 144 aquatints beginning in 1795 for their "Oriental Scenery" project, an exclusive series distributed by subscription of two engravings every two months. The complete bound work of the "Oriental Scenery" with six volumes was not completed until 1808 and is still influential in the style of oriental decor.
India - dream of a better life for Thomas Daniell. India - palaces, Hindu temples, Far East, oriental exoticism. India - shaken by wars, famines, poverty, devastation, social dislocation, resistance to the conquerors. India - object of desire for the British East India Company, trading company for the colonization of the Indian subcontinent.
In 1784, Thomas Daniell, a skilled painter of coats of arms and landscapes, receives permission from the East India Company to work in Calcutta as an engraver. India can be a good market for the artist: Pictures show the foreign country, create a link between the distant subcontinent and the British homeland, at the same time serve their desires and dreams of oriental exoticism, of magnificent buildings like from the fairy tales of 1001 nights. But pictures also show the new colonial architecture that is just emerging, the administrative buildings of the British and document the British claim to power in India. And last but not least, pictures decorate the residences of the British, the "expatriates", in Calcutta. For seven years, until 1793, Thomas Daniell and his 16-year-old nephew William Daniell traveled through India, which at that time meant: on foot or on horseback, with ox carts, in a boat, up the Ganges from Calcutta to Srinagar, from Madras across Mysore and finally to Bombay. Her sketches and watercolors show intimidatingly "modern" English barracks and government residences, depict exotic palaces, mausoleums, pagodas, monuments, ruins, temples, often transfigured into fairy tales and superficially nothing but picturesquely placed amidst the "exotic" Indian landscape. Hardly once do people appear in them, and if they do, then usually only dimly. In her city views, Calcutta is a generous, dazzlingly white city in the neoclassical style. No trace in her pictures of war and misery (but in the diaries of William Daniell).
Their Indian buildings, set as landmarks in the landscape, look like architectural models - and there's a reason for that: a camera obscura allowed them to view objects at great distances in detail and perspective - almost like taking a photograph. Through a hole in the wall of a locked, dark room or box, the light beam penetrates and "casts" the inverted but very accurate image onto the opposite wall or screen. This helps capture proportions, outlines and points correctly for the human eye on a surface, in 2D. The Daniells made a drawing right on the spot and produced oil paintings, engravings, and aquatint etchings, "painterly" ink-like etchings with strong color gradients, from some of the designs while still in Calcutta. Great examples of this process include Francisco de Goya's "Caprichos."
However, sales of their artwork did not go as well as expected in India, plus the Daniells were in failing health. Back in England, they created 144 aquatints beginning in 1795 for their "Oriental Scenery" project, an exclusive series distributed by subscription of two engravings every two months. The complete bound work of the "Oriental Scenery" with six volumes was not completed until 1808 and is still influential in the style of oriental decor.
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 - (MeisterDrucke-168212).jpg "View Taken on the Esplanade, Calcutta, plate I from Oriental Scenery, published 1797 (coloured aquatint) by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "The Chalees Satoon, in the Fort of Allahabad on the River Jumna, from Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan, 1795 by Thomas Daniell")
 - (MeisterDrucke-207478).jpg "The Great Pagoda, Tanjore, plate XXIV from Oriental Scenery, published 1798 (coloured aquatint) by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "Dusasumade Gaut, at Benares on the River Ganges, from Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan, 1796 by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "Travellers on a Path by the Kalyan Mahal, Gingee, Tamil Nadu by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "The Western Entrance of Shere Shahs Fort, Delhi, from Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan, 1796 by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "The Chalees Satoon in the Fort of Allahabad on the River Jumna by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Ramnugur, near Benares, on the River Ganges, from Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan, 1796 by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "Interior of the Palace, Madura, plate XV from Oriental Scenery, published 1798 (coloured aquatint) by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "Ruins of the Naurattan, Sasaram, Bihar by Thomas Daniell")
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![Tiger Hunting in the East Indies [1798, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue] by Thomas Daniell](/kunstwerke/300px/Thomas_Daniell_-_Tiger_Hunting_in_the_East_Indies_1798_Royal_Academy_of_Arts_London_exhibition_ca_-_(MeisterDrucke-1432295).jpg "Tiger Hunting in the East Indies [1798, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue] by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "Part of the City of Patna, on the River Ganges, from Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan, 1795 by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "The Mausoleum of Makhdum Shah Daulat, Maner, Bihar, c.1788-1796 by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "View in the Fort of Trichinopoly, plate 47 from Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan, engraved by Thomas and William (1769-1837) Daniell, 1798 by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "The Qutb Minar, Delhi, c. 1789 by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Dusasumade Gaut, at Bernares on the Ganges by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "The Writers Buildings, Calcutta, plate 30 from Oriental Scenery: Twenty-Four Views in Hindoostan, engraved by Thomas (1749-1840) and William Daniell (1769-1837), 1798 by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "Hindoo Temple at Madura, plate XVI from Oriental Scenery, published 1798 (coloured aquatint) by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "The Mausoleum of Prince Khusrau, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "The Atala Mosque, Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "The Panch Mahal Gate, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, c. 1789 by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "The Gateway of the Taj Mahal, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "The Kotwali Gate, Gaur, Bengal, by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "The Armenian Bridge, near St. Thomass Mount, Madras, plate 36 from Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan, engraved by Thomas and William (1769-1837) Daniell, published 1798 (colour lith by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "View in the Fort, Madura, plate 14 from Part 2 of Oriental Scenery, engraved by the artist and William Daniell (1769-1837) 1797 (aquatint) by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "The North West View of Rohtasgarh, Bihar, by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "View of the Fort, Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "The Chaunsath Khamba Nizamuddin, Delhi, by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Temple, Fountain and Cave in Sezincote Park by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Ruins of the Naurattan, Sasaram, Bihar by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "The Council House, Calcutta, plate 29 from Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan, engraved by Thomas and William (1769-1837) Daniell, 1798 by Thomas Daniell")
![Ramnagar, Near Benares [Varanasi], Uttar Pradesh, c. 1788-9 by Thomas Daniell](/kunstwerke/300px/Thomas_Daniell_-_Ramnagar_Near_Benares_Varanasi_Uttar_Pradesh_c_1788-9_-_(MeisterDrucke-831078).jpg "Ramnagar, Near Benares [Varanasi], Uttar Pradesh, c. 1788-9 by Thomas Daniell")
![Ramnagar, Near Benares [Varanasi], Uttar Pradesh, c. 1788-9 by Thomas Daniell](/kunstwerke/400w/Thomas_Daniell_-_Ramnagar_Near_Benares_Varanasi_Uttar_Pradesh_c_1788-9_-_(MeisterDrucke-831078).jpg)
.jpg "Hindu Temples at Agori, Uttar Pradesh, by Thomas Daniell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1172294).jpg "The Entrance to a Cave Near Gyah (oil on canvas) by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Jami Masjid, Delhi by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Indian Temple, Said to Be the Mosque of Abo-ul-Nabi, Muttra by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "East View of the Forts Jellali and Merani, Muskat by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Gate Leading to a Musjed at Chunar Ghur, plate 25 from Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan, published 1797 by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "The Taj Mahal at Agra, from Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan, 1796 by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "A Hindu Temple in the Fort of Rohtas, Bihar, by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "View of the Canton River, near Whampoa, China by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Ruins of the Ancient City of Gour, formerly on the Banks of the River Ganges, from Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan, 1795 by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "Pinnace sailing down the Ganges past Monghyr Fort by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Ruins of the Palace, Madura, plate 17 from Part 2 of Oriental Scenery, engraved by the artist and William Daniell (1769-1837) 1798 (aquatint) by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "Inside Of Kanaree Cave At Salsette, 1827 by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Hindu Temple at Bindrabund on the Jumna, 1797, 1922. by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Dasasvamedha Ghat, Benares by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Rajghat, Rohtasgarh, Bihar, by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Part of the Palace within the Fort of Allahabad, by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "The Taj Mahal, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, 1789 by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "The Purana Qila, Delhi, by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Tiger Hunting in the East Indies by Thomas Daniell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1099308).jpg "Shipping on the Whampoa River (oil on canvas) by Thomas Daniell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1099309).jpg "The Hongs, Canton (oil on canvas) by Thomas Daniell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1129022).jpg "Lune Aqueduct (oil) by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "Hindu Temple in the Fort of the Rohtas, Bihar, India, c1790. by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Fakir")
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.jpg "Ruins of the Palace of Madra by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "The Jummah Musjed, Delhi, plate XXIII from Oriental Scenery, published 1797 (coloured aquatint) by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "The government house in Ft. St. George, Madras. 1804 by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "View Taken on the Esplanade, Calcutta, 1797 by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "A Gate Leading to a Mosque, Chunargarh, Uttar Pradesh, c. 1789-90 by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Hindoo Temples at Bindrabund on the River Jumna by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Gintoo Beggars by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Temple, Fountain and Cave in Sezincote Park by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Ruins on Pir Pahar, near Monghy, Bihar by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Ship,")
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.jpg "Farmhouse, River and Barge by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Boats near a Dutch Folly Fort, Canton by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Akbarpur Gaut, near Rhotas, India by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "The Rope Bridge, Srinagar, Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh, by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "The Hongs at Canton from the south east, with a regatta on the Pearl river by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "Ramnurgur, near Benares on the River Ganges, 1796 by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Street Scene, from Views in Calcutta by Thomas Daniell, 1786-1788 by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Ramnugur, near Bernares, on the River Ganges by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "The Chalees Satoon by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Frontispiece from")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-1131731).jpg "Figures at Brimham Crags (watercolor on paper) by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "View of the Governor")
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.jpg "The Rope Bridge at Srinaga by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Main Entrance of the Jami Mosque, Jaunpur by Thomas Daniell")
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.jpg "Charles Warre Malet concluding treaty with Peshwa of Maratha Empire in 1790 in Durbar by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "South East View of Fort St. George, Madras, plate 33 from Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan, engraved by Thomas and William (1769-1837) Daniell, published 1797 by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "View on the Chitpore Road, Calcutta, plate II from Oriental Scenery, published 1797 (coloured aquatint) by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "Hindoo Temple near Currah, on the River Ganges, from Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan, 1796 by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "The Government House, Fort St. George, plate 35 from Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan, engraved by Thomas and William (1769-1837) Daniell, 1798 by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "Eastern Gate of the Jummah Musjid at Delhi, from Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan, 1795 by Thomas Daniell")
.jpg "Port of Cheringhee, Calcutta, plate 32 from Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan, engraved by Thomas and William (1769-1837) Daniell, published 1798 by Thomas Daniell")
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