Patna seen from the Ganges, Bihar. Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795.

"The larger building is the house of an Hindoo merchant, and is an example of the general style of buildings on the river side inhabitated by men of that class", Thomas Daniell, quoted in Archer op. cit.

"Patna, site of the ancient city of Pataliputra, was a prosperous trading centre exporting sugar, lac. cotton. indigo, musk from Bhutan and saltpetre for gunpowder. The Dutch, French and British all had factories built along the river, the latter dealing largely in calicoes and chintzes". Archer, op. cit.

[London] (Historic Gallery Pall Mall) : Published as the act directs for Tho[ma]s Daniell by Rob[er]t Bowyer, November 1795.

1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; platemark 48.8 x 65 cm.

Part of the city of Patna, on the river Ganges ; drawn and engraved by Thomas Daniell Bears number bottom right: X

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, 420.11

Mildred Archer, Early views of India, London 1980, reproduced as no. 24

Wellcome Collection 27442i