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'The Tank, Madura, India'
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Oil painting on paper depicting the tank at
Madurai by Marianne North, dated 1877-79.Initially, Marianne North
(1830-1890) painted botanical specimens and travelled around the
world in search of interesting subject matter. She visited India in
1877-79 and completed over 200 paintings whilst there, at this
point she was mainly painting landscapes. This painting is of the
Vandiyur Mariamman Theppakkulam, a large temple tank about 5kms
east of the Minakshi Sundareshvara temple at Madurai. It was built
in the 17th century by Tirumala Nayaka and is the biggest of its
kind in Tamil Nadu. In her autobiography, 'Recollections of a happy
life' of 1892, Marianne North wrote, "I painted a sunset view of
the grand tank outside the town, with its island-temple and
palm-trees, grand old banyan-trees and other temples on its edge.
The English people drive round and round it every evening, and make
that drive their chief gossiping spot."
Title: 'The Tank, Madura, India'
Description:
Oil painting on paper depicting the tank at
Madurai by Marianne North, dated 1877-79.
Initially, Marianne North
(1830-1890) painted botanical specimens and travelled around the
world in search of interesting subject matter.
She visited India in
1877-79 and completed over 200 paintings whilst there, at this
point she was mainly painting landscapes.
This painting is of the
Vandiyur Mariamman Theppakkulam, a large temple tank about 5kms
east of the Minakshi Sundareshvara temple at Madurai.
It was built
in the 17th century by Tirumala Nayaka and is the biggest of its
kind in Tamil Nadu.
In her autobiography, 'Recollections of a happy
life' of 1892, Marianne North wrote, "I painted a sunset view of
the grand tank outside the town, with its island-temple and
palm-trees, grand old banyan-trees and other temples on its edge.
The English people drive round and round it every evening, and make
that drive their chief gossiping spot.
".
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