Bestanddeel RAS GOV7/29 - Copy of a letter from Capt. Gill, Adjuntah, 16 October, 1849

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GB 891 RAS GOV7-RAS GOV7/29

Titel

Copy of a letter from Capt. Gill, Adjuntah, 16 October, 1849

Datum(s)

  • 16th Oct 1849 (Vervaardig)

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Bestanddeel

Omvang en medium

4 pages handwritten

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Biografie

Major Robert Gill was an army officer, antiquarian, painter and photographer in British India. He is best known for his paintings, copying the frescoes of the Ajanta Caves. Gill was the first painter – after their rediscovery in 1819 – to make extensiveread more

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'Copy of a letter from Capt. Gill, addressed to Col. Sykes, dated at Adjuntah, 16 October, 1849' in which he writes of his concern that his paintings had not arrived when Sykes had written to him. He has continued to copy the cave paintings and writes ofread more

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Taal van het materiaal

  • Engels

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