A view of Annie's drawing room within the palace at Tamukkam, Madura
Company School, Madura, South India, circa 1840
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic on paper watermarked T H Saunders 1834, backboard with photocopy of original inscription verso Annie's drawing room
260 x 295 mm.
Footnotes:
Provenance
With Martyn Gregory, London.
Private UK collection.

Exhibited
From China to the West, Martyn Gregory, London 2012-13, cat. no 103 (label on backboard).

The Tamukkam Palace at Madura (modern Madurai), a few hundred miles from Madras, was originally built, circa 1670, as the summer palace of the Rani Mangammal, queen regent of the Nadu kingdom. It was later occupied by the Nawab of the Carnatic, and after that by the East India Company, functioning as the official residence of the District Collector. From 1959 the palace became the Mahatma Gandhi Museum. With its distinctive ogee arches and massive pillars, it was also depicted by Thomas and William Daniell in the late 18th Century.