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Palace of the King of Delhi   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Thomas Sutherland  (1785–1838)  wikidata:Q119883243
 
Description English-British printmaker and engraver
Date of birth/death 1785 Edit this at Wikidata 1838 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
London Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q119883243
After Charles Ramus Forrest  (1786–1827)  wikidata:Q69686100
 
Alternative names
Cha. Forrest,; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ramus Forrest; C. R. Forrest
Description British painter
Date of birth/death 1786 Edit this at Wikidata 1827 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Windsor Edit this at Wikidata Chatham Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q69686100
Title
Palace of the King of Delhi
Object type print
object_type QS:P31,Q11060274
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Palace of the King of Delhi, taken from the principal mosque

From: Lt. Col. C. R. Forrest, from A Picturesque Tour Along the River Ganges and Jumna in India (London: R. Ackermann, 1824)

Palace of the King of Delhi

This is plate 21 from Charles Ramus Forrest's 'A Picturesque tour along the rivers Ganges and Jumna, in India'. Forrest was an East India Company official who made excursions along the rivers, producing drawings "attentively copied from nature, and in many instances coloured on the spot, ... while the magic effects of the scenes represented were still impressed on [his] mental vision".

The construction of the Red Fort or Lal Qila was begun in 1639 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. It consists of many buildings inside high battlemented walls, broken only by three gates. The artist visited the Diwan-I-Am (Hall of Public Audience) that leads to the Diwan-I-Khas (Hall of Private Audience), the latter being the most exclusive and splendid hall of the palace. Forrest wrote of "the ceiling exquisitely painted and gilt ... supported by rows of columns of white marble finely sculptured, and which have once been richly inlaid in mosaic". To the north are the royal baths or Hammams and the Moti Masjid, built in 1662 by Aurangzeb for his personal use.
Depicted place Delhi
Date 1824
date QS:P571,+1824-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium lithograph
medium QS:P186,Q15123870
Dimensions height: 27.2 cm (10.7 in); width: 33.5 cm (13.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,27.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,33.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q23308
Accession number
X757(21)
Place of creation London
Credit line British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
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https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019xzz000000757u00021000.html
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