Lot Essay
The Daniells' oftened used a 'camera obscura' to aid their attempts to record fleeting impressions of events witnessed on their travels.
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Three studies of animals comprising, a camel, a rhino and a water buffalo
Details
Thomas Daniell, R.A. (1749-1840)
Three studies of animals comprising, a camel, a rhino and a water buffalo
pencil, watermarks 'J WHATMAN', 'C PATCH' and a post horn, unframed
9 1/8 x 11 in. (23.2 x 28 cm.); and smaller (3)
Three studies of animals comprising, a camel, a rhino and a water buffalo
pencil, watermarks 'J WHATMAN', 'C PATCH' and a post horn, unframed
9 1/8 x 11 in. (23.2 x 28 cm.); and smaller (3)
Provenance
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, London, 9 May 1962, lot 54 (part) where purchased for the present collection.
Literature
the first, Mildred Archer, 'India Revealed: Sketches by the Daniells', Apollo, LXXVI, November 1962, pp. 689-92, p. 692, fig. 5, illustrated.
Exhibited
the third, India Observed, no. 31.
Special notice
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