Gangaram Chintaman Tambat, active 1790s, Indian, View of a Rock-Carved Temple, Ellora, 1793 or 1795
- 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
- Materials & Techniques:
- 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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- 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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