Ruins of the Kotla Firuz Shah, outside Delhi, India. Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795.

This print was the source for the design transfer-printed onto a piece of Staffordshire pottery, ca. 1810-1820, reproduced in Archer on p. 228. Archer op. cit.

The fifth city of Delhi was built by Firuz Shah Tughluq (ruled 1351-1388) on the banks of the Yamuna, formerly Jumna, river. The Kotla Feroz Shah citadel was built according to the rules of sacred geometry, using harmonious proportions. The ruins of the citadel, the Kotla Firuz Shah, now (1996) lie south-east of modern Delhi on the Mathura road as the Yamuna as shifted its course further east. The buildings shown in the aquatint have disappeared. Archer op. cit.

[London] (Historic Gallery Pall Mall) : Published as the act directs for Tho[ma]s Daniell by Rob[er]t Bowyer, September 1795.

1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; platemark 49 x 65.1 cm

Remains of an ancient building near Firoz Shah's Cotilla, Delhi ; drawn and engraved by Thomas Daniell Bears number bottom right : VII

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, 420.8

Mildred Archer, Early views of India, London 1980, reproduced as no. 42

Wellcome Collection 3372617i