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Description: | Plate seventy-seven from the third volume of James Forbes'"Oriental Memoirs". In the month of April 1781, Forbes(1749-1819), the Collector of Dhaboi embarked ona journey tp Ahmedabad, the newly conquered city. Having reached that place, he made a few excursions in its neighbourhood. This included a visit to Shah-Baug. The Shah Baugh was a royal garden and summer palace, built by Shah Jehan(1627-1648), the 'Master Builder' amongst the Mughal emperors of India. Forbes described in his "Memoirs", the gardens and pleasure-grounds of Shah-Baug, of which little remained 'except broken fountains, aqueducts and a few trees...it now exhibits a scene of solitude and ruin.' However the palace was still in very good repair, even though it had been built nearly two hundred years before, 'The saloon...was a fine room; the wall covered with shell chunam, a white stucco, polished like the finest marble, and the ceiling painted in small compartments with much taste.' | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Publisher: | Cochrane & Co. | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Forbes,James | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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