The Writers’ Building was designed in 1780 by Thomas Lyon to accommodate the junior clerks of the East India Company. This plain façade disappeared under embellishments added a hundred years later. The monument in the foreground was raised by John Zephaniah Holwell, a survivor of the infamous Black Hole of 1756, as a memorial to those who perished.
Thomas Daniell
The Writers’ Buildings, Calcutta
1798
Engraving on paper
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Thomas Daniell
The Writers’ Buildings, Calcutta
1798
Engraving on paper
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