The North Gate—Old, Delhi

Thomas and William Daniell were a British artistic duo of uncle and nephew who visited India in 1786 and made some iconic watercolour paintings and aquatint engravings of the monuments and landscapes here. To many Britons of the Victorian era, the Daniells’ picturesque art of the Subcontinent were the defining views of the ‘exotic East’—which is to say, these engravings were more art than any serious attempt at documentation.

This print is part of our digital exhibition, Delhi Most Iconic.