Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming (1837-1924)

View of Benares from Scindia's sunken Ghat

Details
Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming (1837-1924)
View of Benares from Scindia's sunken Ghat
signed, inscribed and dated'Benares from/Scindia's sunken Ghat/Nov. 69. C.F.G.C/C F.Gordon Cumming' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour heightened with white and gum arabic
19¼ x 28¾ in. (48.9 x 73 cm.)

Lot Essay

In Benares Constance was the guest of Major Hanmer and the Sergisons. The magnificent Scindia Ghat was originally begun in 1830 but was built on such a huge a scale that the foundations sank into the river and it was never completed
For further information on the artist see note following lot 133.

More from Visions of India

View All
View All