Part of Cheringhee, Calcutta, William Daniell, August 1798

Plate 6 from the second set of thomas and william daniell's 'oriental scenery. ' by the end of the 18th century calcutta was a flourishing city with beautiful public buildings and grand houses. The road to chowringhee was a broad avenue on the east side of the maidan where some of the grandest of calcutta's neo-classical villas were situated. Although almost exclusively a british residential area, the land was normally owned and the houses erected by the local bengali merchants and rented out. Object Type: print. Date: August 1798. Place of creation: London. Dimensions: height: 42.2 cm (16.6 in); width: 59.7 cm (23.5 in). Medium: aquatint print coloured. Depicted Place: Kolkata. Collection: British Library. Part of Cheringhee, Calcutta - British Library P941