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The Taj Mahal, Tomb of the Emperor Shah Jehan   (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
The Taj Mahal, Tomb of the Emperor Shah Jehan
Object type print
object_type QS:P31,Q11060274
Description
English: The Taj Mahal, Tomb of the Emperor Shah Jehan

This is plate 24 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 several excursions along the great 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."

Forrest was part of the British legation sent to negotiate with Maharaja Ranjeet Singh of Punjab in the early part of the 19th century. On their way, they stopped at Delhi and Agra where Forrest visited several monuments and buildings, including the Taj Mahal. He described it as being "of the highest beauty and interest of any structure yet raised and perfected by man in any region of the earth ... The Taj appears embosomed in a mass of foliage of a deep green at the further extremity of a large and handsome garden, with its lofty and elegant minarets, and its dome of extreme beauty an airy lightness; the whole of the purest white marble, richly inlaid in patterns of the semiprecious stones, as cornelian, jasper, onyx, and a variety of others of all hues".
Depicted place Agra
Date 1824
date QS:P571,+1824-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium lithograph
medium QS:P186,Q15123870
Dimensions height: 25.3 cm (9.9 in); width: 30 cm (11.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,25.3U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,30U174728
institution QS:P195,Q23308
Accession number
X757(24)
Place of creation London
Credit line British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
Source/Photographer https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019xzz000000757u00024000.html
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