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Sita Ram: The great Gola on the Maidan at Bankipore   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Sita Ram  (fl. 1810–1822)  wikidata:Q118320402
 
Alternative names
Seeta Ram
Description painter
Location of birth Bengal
Work period 1810 Edit this at Wikidata–1822 Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q118320402
Title
The great Gola on the Maidan at Bankipore
Object type drawing
object_type QS:P31,Q93184
Description

The great Gola on the Maidan at Bankipore.

Watercolour of Bankipore granary from 'Views by Seeta Ram from Patna to Benares Vol. II' was produced for the Lord Moira, afterwards the Marquess of Hastings, by Sita Ram between 1814-15. Marquess of Hastings, the Governor-General of Bengal and the Commander-in-Chief (r. 1813-23), was accompanied by artist Sita Ram (flourished c.1810-22) to illustrate his journey from Calcutta to Delhi between 1814-15.

The Gola, or granary, was constructed by John Garstin of the Bengal Engineers in 1786, as a storehouse for grain after a famine, however, was never filled. The Gola is located on the at Bankipore's Maidan. Bankipore is a suburb of Patna, which was inhabited by the British and Europeans starting the mid-18th. View of a brick building, shaped as a bee-hive, which would have been accessed via the external staircases by horseback, to store grain. Inscribed below: 'The Golah. or Grain Stone' [sic]' House at Patna.'

Note: The Gola was constructed by the young John Garstin of the Bengal Engineers in 1786.
Depicted place Golgar
Date 1814
date QS:P571,+1814-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium watercolor
Dimensions height: 25 cm (9.8 in); width: 35.2 cm (13.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,25.0U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,35.2U174728
institution QS:P195,Q23308
Accession number
Add.Or.4706
Credit line British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
Source/Photographer https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/addorimss/t/019addor0004706u00000000.html
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