‘Ootacamund. To the north of the lake.’
Date
1834
Creator
After
Justinian Gantz (1802, British) , Artist
Object type
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 165mm
width (print): 257mm
width (print): 257mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Landscape view of Ootacamund, the modern town of Udagamandalam (sometimes abbreviated to Ooty) in the Nilgirri Mountains of the state of Tamil Nadu, southern India. In the nineteenth century, the settlement was a popular hill station.
The image shows a green mountainous landscape scattered with houses and trees. In the valley between the mountains a lake is visible. The sporadically placed houses are linked by roads, one of which crosses over the lake joining the houses on one side to the other. The drawing style is fairly simplistic coloured with vibrant greens, browns and blues.
Plate 1 (not numbered) frontispiece from the book Observations on the Neilgherries, including an account of their topography, climate, soil & productions… by R Baikie, Esq M.D. ed W.H. Smoult (Calcutta, 1834).
Inscribed below: ‘OOTACAMUND. To the north of the lake. J.B. Tassin lith. Drawn on stone by J. Bennett.’
Robert Baikie (1799-1889) British physician and East India Company surgeon in the Madras Army. Baikie retired from service in 1844 and then practised medicine in Edinburgh.
The image shows a green mountainous landscape scattered with houses and trees. In the valley between the mountains a lake is visible. The sporadically placed houses are linked by roads, one of which crosses over the lake joining the houses on one side to the other. The drawing style is fairly simplistic coloured with vibrant greens, browns and blues.
Plate 1 (not numbered) frontispiece from the book Observations on the Neilgherries, including an account of their topography, climate, soil & productions… by R Baikie, Esq M.D. ed W.H. Smoult (Calcutta, 1834).
Inscribed below: ‘OOTACAMUND. To the north of the lake. J.B. Tassin lith. Drawn on stone by J. Bennett.’
Robert Baikie (1799-1889) British physician and East India Company surgeon in the Madras Army. Baikie retired from service in 1844 and then practised medicine in Edinburgh.
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