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Hubert Cornish (1757-1823)
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Hubert Cornish (1757-1823)

The garden house of the late Mrs Stephenstone, Calcutta

细节
Hubert Cornish (1757-1823)
The garden house of the late Mrs Stephenstone, Calcutta
inscribed 'Garden House of the late/Mrs Stephenstone/now Lady Essex' (on the reverse)
pencil and watercolour, unframed
11¼ x 18 in. (28.6 x 45.7 cm.)
注意事项
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品专文

In J. Mahajan's The Raj Landscape, New Delhi, 1988, he quotes Thomas Twinning's description of the Calcutta garden houses 'all white, their roofs invariably flat, surrounded by light colonnades, and their fronts relieved by lofty columns supporting deep verandahs...' (pp. 40-41).