File:View of Rayakottai taken from the temples within the pettah. 9 May 1792.jpg

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Thomas Daniell: View of Rayakottai taken from the temples within the pettah. 9 May 1792   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Thomas Daniell  (1749–1840)  wikidata:Q708907 s:en:Author:Thomas Daniell
 
Thomas Daniell
Description English painter and printmaker
Date of birth/death 1749 Edit this at Wikidata 19 March 1840 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Chertsey Kensington
Work location
Kolkata, London
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q708907
Author
Thomas Daniell and William Daniell
Title
View of Rayakottai taken from the temples within the pettah. 9 May 1792
Object type sketch
object_type QS:P31,Q5078274
Description
English: Artist: Daniell, Thomas (1749-1840)

Medium: Pencil on paper Date: 1792 Pencil drawing by Thomas and William Daniell of the view of Rayakottai, dated 9 May 1792. Inscribed on back in ink: '199 Raicotta'; in pencil: 'Riacotta. May 9th, 1792.'

Rayacottai formed part of a chain of military outposts used by Tipu Sultan's forces on their campaigns in the Tamil country. In the Journal that the young William Daniell kept we read (entry for 9 May 1792), "Ryacotta is one of the highest and strongest hill forts of the Barramah'l." It was captured in July 1791 by Major Gowdie, '...who soon carried by assault the lower works which enclosed the Pettah' (the commercial suburb outside a fortress).
Date 1792
date QS:P571,+1792-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Pencil on paper
Dimensions height: 27.9 cm (10.9 in); width: 38.9 cm (15.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,27.9U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,38.9U174728
Accession number
WD226
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https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019wdz000000226u00000000.html

https://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=rayakottai

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