Four views in Portugal including: The Christus at Batalha; The Chapel at Leirea (illustrated); The Perlka Convent with Maffa in the distance; The Cell of St. Honorius, Cintra

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James Holland, O.W.S. (1799-1870)
Four views in Portugal including: The Christus at Batalha; The Chapel at Leirea (illustrated); The Perlka Convent with Maffa in the distance; The Cell of St. Honorius, Cintra
signed with monogram, variously inscribed and dated between '20 July' and '12 August 1837'
pencil and watercolour, heightened with touches of bodycolour, on coloured paper, unframed, in a green leather folio
10¼ x 6¾ in. (26 x 17.1 cm.); and slightly smaller; the folio 19¾ x 14 in. (50.2 x 35.6 cm.), overall (4)

Provenance

Baron Leverhulme, Bolton-le-Moors, his bookplate.
Sir W. Drake (L. 736).

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Lot Essay

A watercolour of Cintra, Portugal by Holland, dated 1837, sold at Christie's London, 12 July 1994 (£2,200).
Holland was commissioned to go to Portugal in 1837 to make drawings to be engraved in Jenning's Landscape Annual, published in 1839. He became ill and convalesced in Cintra.

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