The house of a Bengali merchant, located in Chitpore, at the north end of Calcutta, intrigued Thomas Daniell because of its mixed style of architecture: it combined, he thought, Islamic ornament with a turret that was ‘an unsuccessful attempt at the Grecian’.
Thomas Daniell
View on the Chitpore Road, Calcutta
1797
Engraving
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Thomas Daniell
View on the Chitpore Road, Calcutta
1797
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