‘Dimhutty’
Date
1834
Creator
After
Justinian Gantz (1802, British) , Artist
Object type
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 165mm
width (print): 258mm
width (print): 258mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Landscape showing Dimhutty of the Nilgirri Mountains of the state of Tamil Nadu, southern India.
The image shows a green mountainous landscape scattered with small huts and trees. The landscape is reasonably undisturbed and wild, with only small dwellings and no visible roads. The drawing style is fairly simplistic coloured with vibrant greens, browns and blues.
Plate 5 (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 below: ‘DIMHUTTY. 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 small huts and trees. The landscape is reasonably undisturbed and wild, with only small dwellings and no visible roads. The drawing style is fairly simplistic coloured with vibrant greens, browns and blues.
Plate 5 (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 below: ‘DIMHUTTY. 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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