Thomas Daniell, R.A. (1749-1840) and William Daniell, R.A. (1769-1837)

View on the Road to Sirinagur, Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh

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Thomas Daniell, R.A. (1749-1840) and William Daniell, R.A. (1769-1837)
View on the Road to Sirinagur, Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh
inscribed 'View on the ROAD to SERINAGUR' (on the artists' original mount, overmounted) and further inscribed and numbered 'No.22- On the road to Sirinagur in the Coa nulla-' (on the reverse of the artists' original mount)
pencil and watercolour within a black-lined border, on the artist's original mount
18¼ x 19in. (46.4 x 48.3cm.)

Exhibited

Commonwealth Institute, 1960, no.41.
Smithsonian Institution, 1962, no.18.
Spink, 1974, no.15.

Lot Essay

'The first two day's journey lay up a river course or nullah in which fragments of rocks, etc. made the passage very difficult - the other few days journey over the sides and tops of mountains from which scenes of the grandest kind were exhibited'(WD letter; Cotton, 1923, p.16).

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