- View of Choka
- Creator:
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- Samuel Davis, drawings; William Daniell (1769-1837) engraver
- Description:
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- Hand-colored aquatint From Views in Bootan London: [W. Daniell], 1813
- Curatorial Notes:
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- British officer Samuel Davis was the first Western artist to paint the Himalayas. Serving in 1783 as “Draftsman and Surveyor” to an exploratory mission sent to northern India by the British Governor, he depicts here a fort built to guard a trade route into India. His trip required local authorization, and his companion, a travel writer, states “We were in no respect abridged in the liberty of ranging where we chose; and the Raja appeared to rather encourage Mr. Davis, in taking views of different palaces, and of the various scenery exhibited by the wild and picturesque country.”
- Photography:
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- David Kelly Crow
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/th83m4712
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Range label:
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- Logical