Mausoleum of Makhdam Shah Daulut at Maner, Bihar. Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1796.

There is another, earlier, view of the same subject by Willam Hodges in his series Select views in India with the lettering : "A view of a mosque, at Mounheer", Wellcome Collection catalogue no. 26713i

The Muslim saint, Makhdam Shah Daulut, had died in 1608 and was interred at Maner, a village near the junction of the rivers Son and Ganges, 25 miles (40km) west of Patna. His mausoleum was later erected by a disciple. Archer op. cit.

London (Historic Gallery Pall Mall) : Published as the act directs for Tho[ma]s Daniell by Rob[er]t Bowyer, January 1796.

1 print : line-etching and aquatint, with watercolour ; platemark 49.1 x 65.2 cm.

The mausoleum of Mucdoom Shah Dowlut, at Moneah, on the river Soane ; drawn and engraved by Thomas Daniell Bears number bottom right : XII

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, 420.13

Mildred Archer, Early views of India, London 1980, reproduced as no. 22

Wellcome Collection 27523i