The Kanheri caves on the island of Salsette, near Bombay, Maharashtra. Coloured aquatint by Thomas and William Daniell, 1800.

The European shown sketching in this image may be James Wales (1747-1795), through whom the Daniells had come to know about many of the rock-cut temples of Western India. During his time in India, Wales had been making drawings and plans with the intention of publishing an illustrated work on the antiquities of India when he returned to England. However, on a visit to the Kanheri caves in 1795, Wales caught a fever from which he eventually died. The Daniells fulfilled some of his ambitions when they used his drawings as the basis of the last two parts of their series Oriental scenery. Archer op. cit.