Edmund Pink (active 1820s)

Two panoramic Views of the Bay and City of Rio de Janeiro

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Edmund Pink (active 1820s)
Two panoramic Views of the Bay and City of Rio de Janeiro
the first signed twice, inscribed and dated 'RIO DE JANEIRO - BRAZIL/No.7/E Pink Sketch of the Bay and City of Rio de Janeiro-taken from the ponte d'Irmaça/near Praia Grande Edmund Pink-1822' and further inscribed with topographical notes along the shore line, the second indistinctly inscribed with topographical notes along the shore line, and indistinctly inscribed and dated 'From the...de São Francisco...7 December 1821'
watercolour
the first on three joined sheets: 5.7/8 x 23¾in. (14.9 x 60.3cm.) the second: 5.3/8 x 20½in. (13.6 x 52.1cm.) (2)

Lot Essay

Pink was in Brazil from 1821 to 1825, an amateur artist and member of the English trading company G.T. Standfast & Co. in Rio de Janeiro. For his 'Sketches in Brazil taken during a Residence there, in the years 1821, 22, 23, 24 & 1825', including forty-four views in the City and Province of Rio de Janeiro and twenty seven views in the City and Province of Sao Paulo, see Christie's (London), 15 May 1994, lots 39-43. The rare Sao Paulo views have been subsequently published in P. Corrêa do Lago, Iconografia Paulistana Do Século XIX, Sao Paulo, 1998, pp. 58-67.

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