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Views in the West Indies: a folio of ten watercolours comprising: 'Fort Charles'-Port Royal, Jamaica; East Street, Jamaica; Jamaica with Port Royal from above 'Apostles Battery' February 1856; Views of the island of Jamaica; RMS Avon leaving Jamaica; Tacmel, Hayti, St Domingo; Hayti, St Domingo; Haytian Sentry, St Domingo; San Juan, Porto-Rico; and Porto-Rico
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Gaspard Le Marchant Tupper (1826-1906)
Views in the West Indies: a folio of ten watercolours comprising: 'Fort Charles'-Port Royal, Jamaica; East Street, Jamaica; Jamaica with Port Royal from above 'Apostles Battery' February 1856; Views of the island of Jamaica; RMS Avon leaving Jamaica; Tacmel, Hayti, St Domingo; Hayti, St Domingo; Haytian Sentry, St Domingo; San Juan, Porto-Rico; and Porto-Rico
all inscribed and dated [18]56
watercolour heightened with white, unframed
7 x 20.5/8in. (17.7 x 52.4 cm.) and smaller (10)
Views in the West Indies: a folio of ten watercolours comprising: 'Fort Charles'-Port Royal, Jamaica; East Street, Jamaica; Jamaica with Port Royal from above 'Apostles Battery' February 1856; Views of the island of Jamaica; RMS Avon leaving Jamaica; Tacmel, Hayti, St Domingo; Hayti, St Domingo; Haytian Sentry, St Domingo; San Juan, Porto-Rico; and Porto-Rico
all inscribed and dated [18]56
watercolour heightened with white, unframed
7 x 20.5/8in. (17.7 x 52.4 cm.) and smaller (10)
Provenance
with John Bluck, 1973.
The present watercolours came from an album originally in possession of Sir John Gaspard Le Marchant, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland 1847-1852 and Nova Scotia 1852-1857, the artist's uncle.
The artist was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1845 and served in Gibraltar, Jamaica, the Crimea, Bermuda and India, rising to lieutenant-general at the end of his career. His rare views of Bermuda taken in 1856-58 (from the same album) were exhibited at the Bermuda National Gallery, July-September 1995, (A Mystery Revealed, Historic Watercolours of Bermuda 1856-58 by Gaspard Le Marchant Tupper).
The present watercolours came from an album originally in possession of Sir John Gaspard Le Marchant, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland 1847-1852 and Nova Scotia 1852-1857, the artist's uncle.
The artist was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1845 and served in Gibraltar, Jamaica, the Crimea, Bermuda and India, rising to lieutenant-general at the end of his career. His rare views of Bermuda taken in 1856-58 (from the same album) were exhibited at the Bermuda National Gallery, July-September 1995, (A Mystery Revealed, Historic Watercolours of Bermuda 1856-58 by Gaspard Le Marchant Tupper).