English engravings depicting India
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Del Bontà, Robert John
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content: Robert J. Del Bonta Collection
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2014.06, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged in an order provided by the donor. E or engraving numbers reflect Del Bonta's numbering system.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The series primarily consists of engravings produced by the English which are focused on India, particularly leading up to the British Raj period. It includes engravings from Holwell's Interesting Historical Events, Burnouf's and Jacquet's L'Inde Française of 1827-35, Forbes, Oriental Memoirs of 1834, Park's, Wanderings of a pilgrim of 1850, Rowlandson, The Grand Master of 1816, and Moor's, The Hindu Pantheon of 1864, aquatints by Thomas and William Daniell, and etchings by F. Balthazard Solvyns among others.