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José M. Gonsalves
Views at Bombay. [Bombay (?): circa 1833].
Oblong 2° (413 x 527mm). 5 hand-coloured lithograph views by R. Prera (Pereira ?) after Gonsalves , each tipped onto tissue within window mounts, including: View of Bombay from Mazagon Hill; Government House, Parell; The New Mint, Bombay; Saint Thomas's Church, Bombay; View from Apollo Gate, Bombay. (Without view of Town Hall, Bombay and title/front wrappers (see Abbey).
VERY RARE, even incomplete. The earliest hand-coloured lithograph views of Bombay, being only preceded by a set of six uncoloured lithographs by Gonsalves printed by the General Lithographic Press in Bombay in 1826.
In contrast to Calcutta and Madras, there are few early printed images of Bombay. The present views of the public buildings of Bombay, almost certainly printed in India, probably in Bombay, are as rare as the 12 aquatint landscape views of Bombay by James Wales published in London in 1820. José M[aria?] Gonsalves, a little-known Portuguese artist from Goa, was almost certainly the official artist on Alexander Burnes's mission to Kabul in 1836-38. In his account of it, Burnes wrote of him, 'Altogether Don José Gonsalves was a very original character, and a vast favourite with us all: during the day he laboured with industry and attention at his proper calling of draftsman; and when invited to join us after dinner, never failed to enliven the evening. He is I believe, still in Bombay, and, if this page meets his eye, I hope he will consider it as written with sincere good wishes for his future success, and accept my congratulations at his safe return to his senhora'. The views include some of the fine neo-classical buildings situated around Bombay Green (now Horniman Circle). The view from Apollo Gate includes the Church of St. Andrew, the former Admiralty House opposite the Lion Gate entrance to the dockyard, with its clock tower, and the partly visible rounded facade of the Writers's Building. Although the walls of Bombay Fort and the Apollo Gate were demolished during the 1860's, this view by Gonsalves shows one of the few early 19th-century vistas still to be seen in Bombay. Abbey Travel 457; Pheroza Godrej and Pauline Rohatgi Scenic Splendours, India through the printed image, London 1989. (5)
Views at Bombay. [Bombay (?): circa 1833].
Oblong 2° (413 x 527mm). 5 hand-coloured lithograph views by R. Prera (Pereira ?) after Gonsalves , each tipped onto tissue within window mounts, including: View of Bombay from Mazagon Hill; Government House, Parell; The New Mint, Bombay; Saint Thomas's Church, Bombay; View from Apollo Gate, Bombay. (Without view of Town Hall, Bombay and title/front wrappers (see Abbey).
VERY RARE, even incomplete. The earliest hand-coloured lithograph views of Bombay, being only preceded by a set of six uncoloured lithographs by Gonsalves printed by the General Lithographic Press in Bombay in 1826.
In contrast to Calcutta and Madras, there are few early printed images of Bombay. The present views of the public buildings of Bombay, almost certainly printed in India, probably in Bombay, are as rare as the 12 aquatint landscape views of Bombay by James Wales published in London in 1820. José M[aria?] Gonsalves, a little-known Portuguese artist from Goa, was almost certainly the official artist on Alexander Burnes's mission to Kabul in 1836-38. In his account of it, Burnes wrote of him, 'Altogether Don José Gonsalves was a very original character, and a vast favourite with us all: during the day he laboured with industry and attention at his proper calling of draftsman; and when invited to join us after dinner, never failed to enliven the evening. He is I believe, still in Bombay, and, if this page meets his eye, I hope he will consider it as written with sincere good wishes for his future success, and accept my congratulations at his safe return to his senhora'. The views include some of the fine neo-classical buildings situated around Bombay Green (now Horniman Circle). The view from Apollo Gate includes the Church of St. Andrew, the former Admiralty House opposite the Lion Gate entrance to the dockyard, with its clock tower, and the partly visible rounded facade of the Writers's Building. Although the walls of Bombay Fort and the Apollo Gate were demolished during the 1860's, this view by Gonsalves shows one of the few early 19th-century vistas still to be seen in Bombay. Abbey Travel 457; Pheroza Godrej and Pauline Rohatgi Scenic Splendours, India through the printed image, London 1989. (5)