DANIELL, William.

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Panorama of Madras. A panoramic view from within Fort St George, featuring prominent landmarks like St Mary's Church, the oldest Anglican church in India. It was likely produced as a key to Daniell and Parris's artwork of the city exhibited in the rotunda at Coromandel Place from 1830 to 1832. We have traced only two institutional copies, at Yale University and the British Library.William Daniell and E. T. Parris's work was based on sketches made by Augustus Earle during his travels to India in 1829. According to the Literary Gazette's review: "The view is taken from an elevated and commanding situation - the summit of the light-house; a structure so lofty, that it is visible from the deck of a ship at the distance of seventeen miles. The objects nearest to the spectator are Fort George, the magnificent house, and the other buildings belonging to the presidency; which are finely depicted in every respect... Looking further landward, the eye is delighted with a variety of picturesque edifices... If we were asked to selected one feature of particular excellence, we would say, 'the sea.' And yet that would be scarcely just; for there is not the smallest portion of the entire panorama that has been neglected. Every object is invested with the tones of truth and nature" (Pope, p. 859).Provenance: Stephen C. Massey.

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