Prints from "Views of Calcutta"

a) William Wood
Chowringhee Road
1833
Later hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Print size: 9.5 x 14.2 in (24 x 36 cm)
Sheet size: 9.7 x 15 in (25 x 38 cm)

This lithograph derives from plate 9 of William Wood's 'Views of Calcutta'. Wood's series contains 18 plates depicting the buildings along Chowringhee Road, now Jawaharlal Nehru Road, which was the main European residential area of Calcutta. Renowned for its splendid buildings (which earned Calcutta the epithet City of Palaces), at this time the area was expanding at an astonishing pace. Wood had arrived in Calcutta to help his brother George run the Asiatic Lithographic Press, which was established in Park Street in the 1820s. (Source: British Online Library)

b) William Wood
Chowringhee Road
1833
Later hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Print size: 9.5 x 14.2 in (24 x 36 cm)
Sheet size: 9.7 x 15 in (25 x 38 cm)

This lithograph derives from plate 17 of William Wood's 'Views of Calcutta'. Chowringhee Road was the principal route through the main European residential area of Calcutta. In the foreground, people tend their animals and relax in groups. These were years of enormous and largely uncoordinated growth in Calcutta, and the characteristic view of the city became one in which scenes of flourishing wealth were juxtaposed with ones of ramshackle poverty. (Source: British Online Library)

(Set of two)

These works will be shipped unframed

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