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Description: | Watercolour of the Circular Road in Calcutta by Thomas Prinsep (1800-1830), dated c.1827-8. This image is inscribed, 'An unfinished sketch by Tom of the Circular Road; a mosque, a hakuree, a Kuranchee or hackney coach, a police tannah or station for chowkeydars'.
Circular Road was one of the improvements implemented by Marquis Wellesley on his appointment as Governor-General in 1798. Part of the road followed Maratha Ditch, a defence that had been dug in 1742. The Prinsep family served in India for several generations. Thomas Princep was based in Calcutta from 1818 until 1830 when he died after a riding accident. He was in charge of the surveying of a large area of fresh and saltwater mangrove swamp in Bengal known as the Sunderbunds. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Prinsep, Thomas (1800-1830) | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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