File RAS GOV7/17 - Extract of a letter from Captain R. Gill

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GB 891 RAS GOV7-RAS GOV7/17

Title

Extract of a letter from Captain R. Gill

Date(s)

  • 2nd Mar 1848 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

3 pages handwritten

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Biographical history

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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Scope and content

'Extract of a letter from Captain R. Gill, addressed to Colonel Sykes, dated, Adjuntah (Ajanta), 2 March 1848' in which he writes of his season's work copying over 200 square feet of cave paintings which he has forwarded to the Government. He describesread more

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Language of material

  • English

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