Manuscript Journals of a Tour in India

Item author: William Daniell
Item date: 1788 - 92
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 41,000
Item date acquired: 2001
Item institution: British Library
Town/City: London

These four surviving volumes are the most important documents in the whole field of British art in India. They are all that remain of the journals kept by William and Thomas Daniell on their epic journey round the subcontinent that was to result in the great aquatint series Oriental Scenery, published 1795 - 1808. The journals document the Daniells working methods as well as noting contemporary affairs and their travelling itinerary

Item Provenance
Acquired on the WDs death by Sir Henry Russell; bought in the 1960s by Lord Rothermere for Daylesford, Warren Hastings home, where they remained until after the death of Viscountess Rothermere in 1998