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Thomas Daniell: S.E. View Of The Fakeer's Rock In The River Ganges, Near Sultaungunge (

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Artist



Description	English painter and printmaker
Date of birth/death	1749	19 March 1840
Location of birth/death	Chertsey	Kensington
Work location	Kolkata, London
Authority file	: Q708907 VIAF: 71525491 ISNI: 0000000083929114 ULAN: 500028064 LCCN: n50037796 NLA: 35781246 WorldCat

Author

w:Thomas Daniell and w:William Daniell

Title

S.E. View Of The Fakeer's Rock In The River Ganges, Near Sultaungunge

Object type

print

Description

English: Plate 10, part 5. Image from Oriental Scenery. he Fakeer's Rock is one of the most sacred places of pilgrimage on the Ganges, as here was believed to be the residence of the hermit Jahnu who swallowed up the Ganges. There is a temple dedicated to Brahma on the top of a high rock and four small temples below. Figures of Siva and Visnu and other deities were sculpted in relief on the rocks in the 8th Century.

Date

April 1800

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: Oriental Scenery — One Hundred and Fifty Views of the Architecture, Antiquities, and Landscape Scenery of Hindoostan.djvu

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