Lot Essay
'The road here (if such it may be called which, having no trace upon the surface, must be continually hunted for) presents all the difficulties and impediments that can be imagined in such situations. Sometimes blocked up by the violence of periodical floods, it is continued by the trunks of trees thrown from rock to rock, or carried up the steep sides of large fragments of the fallen cliffs, by means of twisted branches, that being fastened to the surface, provide a mode of clambering, which, though practicable, was neither safe nor commodious to travellers incumbered with baggage.'
'But paths like these, little frequented, where public attention has never been exerted to improve the means of communication, are generally the result of accident, and in the most difficult part are effected merely by the slight expedients of individuals, whom necessity compels to make their way through such passages' (Oriental Scenery).
This composition is related to another, one of a set of five works in mixed oil and watercolour on paper, now in the India Office Library (see Shellim, 1979, pp.37-39, especially TD12).
'But paths like these, little frequented, where public attention has never been exerted to improve the means of communication, are generally the result of accident, and in the most difficult part are effected merely by the slight expedients of individuals, whom necessity compels to make their way through such passages' (Oriental Scenery).
This composition is related to another, one of a set of five works in mixed oil and watercolour on paper, now in the India Office Library (see Shellim, 1979, pp.37-39, especially TD12).