Lot Essay
It has been pointed out that the horse in the foreground is a thoroughbred. These were sent over to India from Hormuz, Persia
Details
English School, circa 1860
Captain Simpson's Children with their Ponies
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour, on Whatman paper dated 1854
30¾ x 18in. (781 x 457mm.)
Captain Simpson's Children with their Ponies
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour, on Whatman paper dated 1854
30¾ x 18in. (781 x 457mm.)
Literature
P. Pal and V. Dehejia, From Merchants to Emperors, London, 1986, p.66, pl.55