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View of the town of Hurdwar (Haridwar), Northern India

Maker

(artist)
1769-1837

Title

Date of Production

1789

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash, blue watercolour on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 34.5 cm
Width: 47.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1967.WS.35

Mode of Acquisition

William Wycliffe Spooner, bequest, 1967

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

In the eighteenth-century, the East India Company patronised artists who would make the journey to India to document their travels. Among the most important topographers of India were Thomas Daniell (1749-1840) and his nephew William, who joined him in 1785. Their major work was Oriental Scenery (1795-1808), containing 144 aquatints, most of which they engraved after their drawings. This watercolour of Hurdwar dates from their first tour up-country from Calcutta.

Notes

Drawn on Daniell's first tour with his uncle Thomas Daniell from Calcutta in August 1788 and reaching Hurdwar on 4 April 1789.

Provenance

Mr and Mrs William Wycliffe Spooner, Ilkley (1882-1967); Spooner Bequest 1967

Exhibition History

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum and Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005; Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 18/07/2005-23/10/2005; Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House, London, 16/11/2005-12/02/2006

English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 11/05/1973-02/06/1973 ...More

Masters of the Watercolour - Watercolours from the Spooner
Collection, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 1969

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/04/1968-01/07/1968 ...Less

Literature

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1968
cat. no. 11

Masters of the Watercolour - Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 1969
cat. no. 26

English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 1973
cat. no. 19 ...More

The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 47
ill. on p. 167 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, centre: "J WHATMAN".

Collector's mark: none.

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