‘Falls of the Cauvery in Mysore’
Date
1834
Creator
After
Justinian Gantz (1802, British) , Artist
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Dimensions
height (print): 165mm
width (print): 258mm
width (print): 258mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Landscape showing one of the waterfalls along the Cauvery, or Kaveri, river near Mysore southern India. The river flows through the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
The image shows a waterfall landscape. The large waterfall flows through the centre of a green and brown mountainous landscape, the white water is broken up by large pieces of earth and rock. Two people stand upon the river banks at the base of the waterfall where the water calms. The landscape is reasonably undisturbed and wild, with no dwellings or visible roads. The drawing style is fairly simplistic coloured with vibrant greens, browns, yellows and blues.
Plate 6 (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: ‘FALLS of the CAUVERY in MYSORE. 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 waterfall landscape. The large waterfall flows through the centre of a green and brown mountainous landscape, the white water is broken up by large pieces of earth and rock. Two people stand upon the river banks at the base of the waterfall where the water calms. The landscape is reasonably undisturbed and wild, with no dwellings or visible roads. The drawing style is fairly simplistic coloured with vibrant greens, browns, yellows and blues.
Plate 6 (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: ‘FALLS of the CAUVERY in MYSORE. 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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