COMPANY SCHOOL, LUCKNOW, INDIA, CIRCA 1780

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STUDY OF A HIPPOPOTAMUS
COMPANY SCHOOL, LUCKNOW, INDIA, CIRCA 1780
Pen, ink and watercolour on 'J Kool' watermarked paper, scale and identification in brown ink above, the verso plain, mounted, framed and glazed
11 x 16 ½in. (27.5 x 42cm.)

Provenance

Warren Hastings, Gloucestershire (d.1818)
Hobhouse Limited, London, 1986
Barry Sainsbury (d.1999)

Literature

Indian Drawings of Plants and Animals, exhibition catalogue, Hobhouse Limited, Spring 1986, no. 5 (unpaginated)

Engraved

Along the top edge No. 1 Hippopotamia amphibious, Male

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Lot Essay

The present study is an almost direct copy of a study of a hippopotamus by Robert Jacob Gordon (1743-1795) from 1777 which is now in the Rijksmuseum (RP-T-1914-17-197). Robert Jacob Gordon produced studies of flora and fauna whilst in South Africa in the late 18th century and it is very possible that Warren Hastings commissioned a copy of the painting after seeing the original.

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