The artist Thomas Daniell (1749–1840) introduced architectural elements from India into the English garden on the basis of scenery and monuments he had sketched in the course of a ten-year tour of the Subcontinent. When Sir Charles Cockerell, a "nabob" made wealthy by three decades with the East India Company, built a new house at Sezincote in a fusion of Hindu and Mogul styles, Daniell transformed a part of the garden into a dream of India in the Cotswolds, with a shrine to the Hindu sun god beside a lotus-shaped pool with sacral fountain. The temple housed a figure of Surya cast in Coade & Seeley's Patent Imitation Stone.
Consists of 10 hand colored aquatints, printed in sepia.
Title from RLG record: QMCA87-B20653 and from Ray.
Suggested date publication from Ray.
Sir Charles Cockerell employed Martin to create the portfolio of views of Sezincote House in 1817; the plates were subsequently issued privately in a limited number of sets. Cf. Ray.
Individual plates lettered below image: Drawn & etched by J. Martin ... Engraved by F.C. Lewis.
Views of Sezincot House