CONDITION USED GOOD , PICTURESQUE INDIA , SKETCHES AND TRAVELS OF THOMAS AND WILLIAM DANIEL,HARDCOVER,1983

A larger number of british landscape artists started coming to india in the last quarter of eighteenth century with the rapidly increasig british involvement in indian affairs. poor financial prospects of landscape paintes in britain , the stories of easily won fortunes in india and the allure of novelty in pirsuit of the cult of the ‘picturesque’ in vogue in british art circles at the time were the principal reasons which brought them to india .