‘Mission School - OOTACAMUND’
Date
1834
Creator
After
Justinian Gantz (1802, British) , Artist
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 165mm
width (print): 258mm
width (print): 258mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Landscape showing The Mission School in 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, with a white building (the mission school) situated in the centre of it. In the foreground a number of roads converge into a single road that leads to the school. There is a lawn in front of the school and behind the school a line of trees runs across the landscape. The drawing style is fairly simplistic coloured with vibrant greens, browns and blues.
Plate 9 (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: ‘MISSION SCHOOL - OOTACAMUND. 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, with a white building (the mission school) situated in the centre of it. In the foreground a number of roads converge into a single road that leads to the school. There is a lawn in front of the school and behind the school a line of trees runs across the landscape. The drawing style is fairly simplistic coloured with vibrant greens, browns and blues.
Plate 9 (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: ‘MISSION SCHOOL - OOTACAMUND. 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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