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Just as Audubon and Catlin would later interpret the people and wildlife in unknown outlands of the U.S. to the Americans of their day. Thomas and William Daniell gave Britons their first good look at what things were like "out in India." As translations of Indian classics and his tories gave England a new imagery, their pictures gave the image visual form. The Daniells, who knew that their watercolors of rugged hills, exotic foliage, vine-choked ruins and thronged temples were vastly popular with seekers of the picturesque, were nonetheless mindful of a responsibility to keep their interpretations accurate.