Ruins in the city of Gaur, West Bengal. Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795.

There is another view of a ruined gate at Gaur in the Wellcome Library by James Moffat after Henry Creighton

Gaur was the capital of Bengal under its ancient Hindu kings and after 1200 under Muslim rulers, but an outbreak of plague in 1575 caused it to be abandoned. Archer op. cit.

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

1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; platemark 49.2 x 65.2 cm.

Ruins at the antient city of Gour formerly on the banks of the river Ganges ; drawn and engraved by Thomas Daniell Bears number bottom right : 4

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, 420.5

Mildred Archer, Early views of India, London 1980, reproduced as no. 91

Wellcome Collection 3372619i