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Raj Ghaut and Fort of Allahabad   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Thomas Sutherland  (1785–1838)  wikidata:Q18508689
 
Description English 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,Q18508689
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 Chatham
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artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q69686100
Title
Raj Ghaut and Fort of Allahabad
Object type print
object_type QS:P31,Q11060274
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Raj Ghaut and Fort of Allahabad, at the confluence of the Ganges and Jumna rivers

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

Raj Ghaut and Fort, Allahabad

This is plate 17 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".

In December 1807 he set out from Calcutta with a British diplomatic legation along the Ganges. Having passed Benares [Varanasi], they moved on to Allahabad, which was "situated at the immediate confluence of the two great rivers, Ganges and Jumna, which here mingle their mighty bulk of waters. The fortress is nearly triangular in shape ... It was built by the great Acber [Akbar], and was long the residence of that renowned warrior and statesman ... The point of junction of the two rivers ... is a great resort of pilgrims, who come in vast crowds from the most remote parts of India to bathe in the sacred waters, and purify themselves from wordly sins."
Depicted place Allahabad Triveni Sangam
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
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X757(17)
Place of creation London
Credit line British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
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