![37 India.- Colebrooke (Lt. Robert Hyde) View of the Saddle Peak in the Great Andaman Island, bearing West by North, watercolour, [c. 1789-90].
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Lot 37
India.- Colebrooke (Lt. Robert Hyde) View of the Saddle Peak in the Great Andaman Island, bearing West by North, watercolour, [c. 1789-90].
Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000
Description
India.- Colebrooke (Lt. Robert Hyde) View of the Saddle Peak in the Great Andaman Island, bearing West by North, watercolour, pen and ink, traces of black chalk, signed and inscribed on old mount, 395 x 590 mm (15 1/2 x 23 1/4 in), under glass, minor spotting and browning, framed, [circa 1789-90]
Provenance:
Hartnoll & Eyre, London, European Landscape Painting in India, exhb. 16th - 26th November, 1976, no. 7
⁂ Colebrooke, a highly competent amateur artist, was working as a British infantry officer in India from 1778, and conducted early surveys in Bengal and Mysore before becoming Surveyor General of Bengal, a position he held from 1788 to 1794. The present work would have been produced between November 1789 and April 1790, when Colebrooke accompanied Alexander Kyd to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Description
India.- Colebrooke (Lt. Robert Hyde) View of the Saddle Peak in the Great Andaman Island, bearing West by North, watercolour, pen and ink, traces of black chalk, signed and inscribed on old mount, 395 x 590 mm (15 1/2 x 23 1/4 in), under glass, minor spotting and browning, framed, [circa 1789-90]
Provenance:
Hartnoll & Eyre, London, European Landscape Painting in India, exhb. 16th - 26th November, 1976, no. 7
⁂ Colebrooke, a highly competent amateur artist, was working as a British infantry officer in India from 1778, and conducted early surveys in Bengal and Mysore before becoming Surveyor General of Bengal, a position he held from 1788 to 1794. The present work would have been produced between November 1789 and April 1790, when Colebrooke accompanied Alexander Kyd to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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