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TITLE: Pagodas at Trinchicunum
ARTIST: Drawn by Henry Salt and engraved by Daniell Havell
PUBLISHER: William Miller
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1808
MEDIUM: Colour aquatint and etching
SURFACE: Paper
SIZE:
IMAGESIZE: 46 x 60 cm
WITH MOUNT: 63 x 78 cm

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 Pagodahas 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 pyramidalform, ending in something like a sarcophagus.

These are surrounded by groves of cocoa-nut, mango and tamarind trees." (British Library Board)