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TITLE: Oriental Drawings: Sketched between the Years 1791 and 1798
AUTHOR: Captain Charles Gold
PUBLISHER: Bunney and Co., for G. and W. Nicoll
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1806
NO.OF PAGES: 292
BINDING: Old contemporary half leather binding with cloth boards, spine with label gilt lettered and marbled endpapers.
SIZE: 32.5 x 26.5 x 3.5 cm
THIS IS A PRESENTATION COPY BY THE AUTHOR
LIST OF PLATES:-
1. Cattamarans
2. A Durbash
3. A Gentoo Fortress
4. A Gentoo Zealot, rolling a Pilgramage
5. A Church Brahmin, Chief of a Temple dedicated to the God Veeshnu Nagapatnam
6. Coolies, at Dinner on the Road
7. A Female Devotee, of the Gentoo Cast
8. A Village Church, with Indins worshipping the God Pollear
9. A Brahmin, of the Tribe of Seeva, returning from bathing
10. A Sepoy, of Tipoo Sultaun's regular Infantry
11. Female Brahmins, Carrying Water from the Well
12. Mausoleum, of a Mahomedan of Rank
13. A Pandarom
14. An Artillery Elephant on Duty
15. Sepoys of the Madras Establishment
16. A Tank
17. Barbers
18. A Moorish Fakir, Decorated for the Hussain Haussain Festival
19. Ramlingam - Pandaree
20. A Pagoda, od Indian Place of Worship
21. Gentoo Women, Employed beating Rice
22. A Satadeven, Accompanied by his Son
23. Untitled plate of 20 assorted Musical Instruments
24. Snake - Men with Serpents dancing to Music
25. Gateways of Moorish Architecture
26-27. Untitled Gateways of Moorish Architecture
28. A Collery, One of the Cast of Thieves
29. A Naigue of the Bombay Grenadier Battalion
30. A Juggler
31. A Musical Beggar, With a new Method of performing on Wind Instruments
32. Hanuman, Kingof Apes, an Indian Deity
33. A Marriage Procession
34. Amboor Fort
35. Barbarous Ceremony in honour of Mariatale, Goddess of the Small-pox
36. [Untitled plate] Barbarous Ceremony
37. A Cuisinegerra and Soldiers' Cook - boys
38. Officers and Private of the Gun Lascar Corps, Madras Establishment
39. Flying Foxes and Banyan Tree
40. A Lame Beggar and his Family
41. A Choultry of Moorish Construction
42. A Peesash. The Effects of the Land Wind
43. Palankeens, Passing through a Tope of Cocoa-nut, Palmyra, and Arica Tree
44. Smoking the Hooka
45. Colossal Idols, Near the Village of Manapar.
46. A Bengal Sepoy and his Family meeting one of the Byraggee Cast
47. Festival of the Chariot
48. Mysorean Cavalry, Attacked by British Dragoons
49. Tippoo's Palace
50. The Tomb of Hyder Ali and Tippoo Sultaun in the Laul Baug
CHARLES GOLD"S SPLENDID ORIENTAL DRAWINGS, WITH 49 RICHLY COLOURED AQUATINTS OF INDIA
Charles Gold's costume studies reveal his fascination with Indian processions and the splendor of Indian architecture.
Oriental Drawings is a collection of images produced from sketches made by Captain Charles Gold between 1791 and 1798, while he was serving in military campaigns against Tipu Sultan, ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore.
The book was designed to appeal to contemporary taste for faraway lands, and was dedicated to the war-time Governor General of India, Charles, Marquis Cornwallis (1738-1805).The images are etched almost entirely in aquatint, which produces a soft tonal quality, and then enhanced with watercolour. 49 plates are coloured, with only one plate being uncoloured.
Reference: Abbey Travel 428; not in Tooley; Archer pp. 72, 79-80; Cox Vol. I, p. 310; Martin Hardie, p. 134; Prideaux, pp. 247, 338; Bobins 250, SPL 964
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