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TITLE: Poonah
ARTIST: Henry Salt
ENGRAVER: Daniel Havell
MEDIUM: Colour Aquatint and etching
SURFACE: Paper
IMAGE SIZE: 43.5 x 59.5 cm
PAPER SIZE: 46.5 x 64.5 cm
WITH MOUNT: 60 x 79 cm

Plate XIII from Salt's folio views of India, Egypt, Ceylon, Abyssinia, the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena.

This large coloured aquatint plate by Henry Salt depicts the city of Poona, an important military centre under Britishrule, located at the confluence of the Mutha and Mula rivers. In mid-ground is a group of mourners surrounding the city's river-side burning ghats. Salt was an artist, traveler, diplomat and collector of antiquities from Lichfield, England. Salt accompanied a nobleman named George Annesley on a tour of the East as his secretary and draughtsman. He made several paintings and illustrations on these journeys, many of which served to illustrated Annesley's, who also went by Lord Valentia, book Voyages and Travels to India published in 1809. The present lot is one of them.

The engraver of this plate was Daniel Havell, a member of the renowned English family firm of artists and engravers.