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- Title:
A View of the Tomb of the Emperor Sher Shah at Sasseram in Bahar
- Date:
- 1786
- Medium:
- Engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream, laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 22 5/16 × 29 3/8 inches (56.7 × 74.6 cm), Plate: 18 3/4 × 24 11/16 inches (47.6 × 62.7 cm), and Image: 16 3/4 × 23 1/2 inches (42.5 × 59.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, lower left; "Drawn on the Spot & Painted by Hodges."; lettered, lower center: "A View of the Tomb of the Emperor Shere Shah at Sasseram in Bahar. | Published May 1st 1786, by W. Hodges, Queen Street, May Fair, London"; lettered, lower right: "Engraved by Morris."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1979.22.1
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- View by request in the Study Room [Request]
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