Pagodas at Trinchicunum

by Henry Salt

$3,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

An excellent view of Tamil Nadu including one of the great irrigation tanks: a true masterpiece of early technology. Henry Salt, artist, traveller, diplomat and collector of antiquities, was born at Lichfield, Staffordshire, England on 14 June 1780. He was determined to become a portrait-painter, and upon leaving school was taught drawing by Glover, the watercolour-painter of Lichfield. In 1797 he went to London to study with Joseph Farington, R.A., and then with John

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