Credit: ©The Royal Society 2018
    Image number: RS.13532

    ‘Dimhutty’

    Date
    1834
    Creator
    Jean-Baptiste Tassin (1800 - 1868, French) , Lithographer
    J Bennett (British) , Lithographer
    After
    Justinian Gantz (1802, British) , Artist
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 165mm
    width (print): 258mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > landscape
    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.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Asia
          > India
    <The World>
       > Asia
          > India
             > Tamil Nadu
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