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English: The Hot Spring at Sitacoon

Sihta-cond or Sita-coon, is the name of a hill, or rather a chain of hillocks that overlook a lake of some miles in circuit... which last cannot be anything else than the crater of a volcano https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0dNCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA209&lpg

The hot well of Sitacoon , so named from Setah , the favourite wife of Ram , and having... (near) the rock of Monghyr... Ganges https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7xVVt6K7Nm4C&pg=PA87&lpg

Drawing of men enjoying a hot spring. No. 18

From "Pictorial Journal of Travels in Hindustan from 1828, to 1833. By Captain Robert Smith Late H.M. 44th Regt'", 65 detached and mounted illustrations in pencil. The work, much of it in diary form, includes illustrations of voyages on the Ganges from Calcutta to Cawnpore, begun December 18, 1828, completed March 22, 1829; and visits to Cawnpore, Delhi, Agra, Lucknow and elsewhere in 1831-32. Smith retired to Ireland in 1833 but continued to work on the unpublished manuscript until 1845.

Materials and Techniques: Pencil on paper

Dimensionsː Height: 9.2 cm, Width: 15 cm

Museum number: IM.15:18-1915
Date between circa 1828 and circa 1833
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1828-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1833-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O404022/the-hot-spring-at-sitacoon-drawing-smith-robert-captain/
Author Captain Robert Smith (1792-1882)

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