Edwin Lord Weeks (American, 1849-1903)

Ahmedabad and its architecture made a profound impression on the artist. He wrote: 'The deeply recessed lower story forming a veranda, and the wooden pillars with elaborately
wrought consols supporting the upper stories or balconies; the whole
facade is often covered with a wealth of carving, painted with tints
which are rather gaudy when new, but which are exquisitely beautiful
when half effaced and weather-worn... The doors of these housed,
although massive and heavy, both in appearance and actual weight, are
often exceedingly interesting and of great artistic beauty' (Weeks, op. cit., p. 330).