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Description: | This is plate 36 from Robert Melville Grindlay's 'Scenery, Costumes and Architecture chiefly on the Western Side of India'. Grindlay (1786-1877) was only 17 when he arrived in India in 1803. He served with the Bombay Native Infantry from 1804 to 1820 and during this period made a large collection of sketches and drawings.
In this image Grindlay imagined a spectator standing in the porch of an exquisitely decorated Hindu temple at Modhera in Gujarat, which Grindlay compared favourably to anything produced in ancient Greece. Colonel Monier-Williams, the Surveyor General, said of the site: "This is one of the finest specimens of Ancient Hindoo architecture ... I ever saw ... We spent some time every day in inspecting the place; but such is the variety of its beauties, that it would have taken a much longer time than we had to spare to have discerned them all or have gained a faint idea of the general design." | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Publisher: | Smith, Elder & Co | Rights holder: | British Library | Subjects: | Hinduism Hindu Temples Temples | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Roberts, David (1796-1864) | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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