拍品 148
148
Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Trichinopoly, Tamil Nadu

細節
Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Trichinopoly, Tamil Nadu
inscribed, dated, and numbered'(687)/6.15.AM. to 8.AM./Trichinopoly.' (lower left), and further inscribed with the artist's colour notes
pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour
12¼ x 21 in. (36.2 x 53.3 cm.)

拍品專文

This view shows the Great Rock Fortress at Trichinopoly in Tamil Nadu, South India. Lear visited India and Sri Lanka between 1872 and 1876, as a guest of his friend Thomas George Baring, Earl of Northbrook and Viceroy and Governor General of India.
A finished watercolour based on this sketch and dated 1874 and 1877 was sold at Sotheby's London, 23 November 1967, lot 35, illustrated.