‘Sir William Rumbold’s House, now used as an Hotel’
Date
1834
Creator
Jean-Baptiste Tassin (1800 - 1868, French) , Artist
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Dimensions
height (print): 165mm
width (print): 258mm
width (print): 258mm
Subject
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Description
Drawing of the front view and the ground plan of Sir William Rumbold’s House.
The first part of the plate shows a grand house with eight large windows, four either side of the large entrance. Steps and columns lead to the entrance. The second part of the plate shows the u-shape ground plan of the house. The text shows the scale that the diagram is drawn to and claims that the letter G. marks the entrances and that there is a fireplace in each room
The so-called house was actually built as a hotel in 1833 by the administrator Sir William Rumbold (1788-1833). Situated in Ootacamund, in Ootacamund, the modern town of Udagamandalam (sometimes abbreviated to Ooty) in the Nilgirri Mountains of the state of Tamil Nadu, southern India at the base a hill adjoining that on which St Stephen's church stands. After Rumbold's death, it was rented for a year as the summer residence of the first Governor General of India, Lord William Bentinck (1774-1839).
Plate 4 (not numbered) 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: ‘Sir William Rumbold’s House, now used as an Hotel. Ground plan. G. Entrances. There is a fireplace in each room. J.B. Tassin lith.’
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 first part of the plate shows a grand house with eight large windows, four either side of the large entrance. Steps and columns lead to the entrance. The second part of the plate shows the u-shape ground plan of the house. The text shows the scale that the diagram is drawn to and claims that the letter G. marks the entrances and that there is a fireplace in each room
The so-called house was actually built as a hotel in 1833 by the administrator Sir William Rumbold (1788-1833). Situated in Ootacamund, in Ootacamund, the modern town of Udagamandalam (sometimes abbreviated to Ooty) in the Nilgirri Mountains of the state of Tamil Nadu, southern India at the base a hill adjoining that on which St Stephen's church stands. After Rumbold's death, it was rented for a year as the summer residence of the first Governor General of India, Lord William Bentinck (1774-1839).
Plate 4 (not numbered) 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: ‘Sir William Rumbold’s House, now used as an Hotel. Ground plan. G. Entrances. There is a fireplace in each room. J.B. Tassin lith.’
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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