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Creator:
Gangaram Chintaman Tambat, active 1790s
Title:

View of a Rock-Carved Temple, Ellora

Former Title(s):

Formerly: Malhas Turksee alias Kauteseneo

Additional Title(s):

Verso: Graphite Sketch of Image on Recto

Date:
1793 or 1795
Medium:
Gray wash and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 × 19 1/8 inches (30.5 × 48.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper center: "No 5 C Mathas Jeyksee alias Kautiseneo This Extrady. Structure is cut out of the Solid Rock on a Platform cut in | The Side of the Rock 154 ft. 2 ins. Long 77 ft. 1 ins. Broad - <The Temple> Only Part of the Temple appears the remains being beneath the Surface or never Excavated the Part above. | the Surface being about 25 feet"; inscribed on verso in pen and black ink, upper center: "3"; in pen and brown ink, lower center: "C"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.22336
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
architectural subject
Associated Places:
Ellora | India
Access:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:17662
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Holly Shaffer, Grafted arts : art making and taking in the struggle for western India : 1760-1910, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, CT, p. 118, fig. 70, N72.P6 S53 2022+ (YCBA) [YCBA]


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