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CAPTAIN RICHARD BARRON (fl.1815-38)
A View of the late Sir William Rumbold's House; A General View of Ootacamund; Taken at Kandelmund
3 hand-coloured aquatints by Robert Havell after Captain Richard Barron, one framed, the others mounted on card, numbered I, II and V, from Barron's Views in India, Chiefly Among the Neelgherry Hills, London: Robert Havell, 1837. Abbey Travel, 459, nos. 2, 3 and 6. Exhibited: plates 5 & 6, India Observed, nos. 179 & 181.
Barron's drawings made in the Nilgiri Hills came to be 'among the most evocative of all aquatints made after studies by amateur artists' (M. Archer, 'The Peoples of India', Marg, vol XL, no. 4, p.15). Captain Barron, of His Majesty's 3rd Regiment, or Buffs, and aide-de-camp to Lt. General Sir Frederick Adam, Governor of Madras 1832-7, stayed in the Nilgiri Hills in 1835. When Barron's views were published in 1837, they were dedicated to Sir Adam and accompanied by descriptive text. Barron observed Sir Rumbold's house, seen to the left of Plate I, which was 'beautifully situated', offering a 'splendid view of the Koondah's'. Of plate II, Barron comments, 'this view comes suddenly on the stranger coming up from the low country.. after ascending from the plain of Coimbatoor, he beholds a European colony of cottages..'. Plate V depicts the 'prepossessing' Todas, shown sitting 'in the position most common among them'.
MAJOR STEPHEN PONSONBY PEACOCKE (fl.1833-55)
Toda Mund and Todas Ootacamund; View of the Low Country from the 2nd Mile Stone, Conoor Pass; Bearers' Godown at the Avalanche, Koondahs [Bearers' halting place at the Avalanche]
3 hand-coloured lithographs by P. Gauci after Peacocke, on thick paper (370 x 540mm), from Views in the Neilgherry and Koondah Ranges... London, 1847 (final plate trimmed and mounted). Not in Abbey. Exhibited: Bearers' Godown at the Avalanche, India Observed, no.193.
Both Barron's and Peacocke's prints 'reflect the same romantic escape from the plains' (Archer). The final lithograph shows a halting place on the journey up to Ootacamund in the Neilgherry Hills - a group is shown carrying on by palanquin. (6)
A View of the late Sir William Rumbold's House; A General View of Ootacamund; Taken at Kandelmund
3 hand-coloured aquatints by Robert Havell after Captain Richard Barron, one framed, the others mounted on card, numbered I, II and V, from Barron's Views in India, Chiefly Among the Neelgherry Hills, London: Robert Havell, 1837. Abbey Travel, 459, nos. 2, 3 and 6. Exhibited: plates 5 & 6, India Observed, nos. 179 & 181.
Barron's drawings made in the Nilgiri Hills came to be 'among the most evocative of all aquatints made after studies by amateur artists' (M. Archer, 'The Peoples of India', Marg, vol XL, no. 4, p.15). Captain Barron, of His Majesty's 3rd Regiment, or Buffs, and aide-de-camp to Lt. General Sir Frederick Adam, Governor of Madras 1832-7, stayed in the Nilgiri Hills in 1835. When Barron's views were published in 1837, they were dedicated to Sir Adam and accompanied by descriptive text. Barron observed Sir Rumbold's house, seen to the left of Plate I, which was 'beautifully situated', offering a 'splendid view of the Koondah's'. Of plate II, Barron comments, 'this view comes suddenly on the stranger coming up from the low country.. after ascending from the plain of Coimbatoor, he beholds a European colony of cottages..'. Plate V depicts the 'prepossessing' Todas, shown sitting 'in the position most common among them'.
MAJOR STEPHEN PONSONBY PEACOCKE (fl.1833-55)
Toda Mund and Todas Ootacamund; View of the Low Country from the 2nd Mile Stone, Conoor Pass; Bearers' Godown at the Avalanche, Koondahs [Bearers' halting place at the Avalanche]
3 hand-coloured lithographs by P. Gauci after Peacocke, on thick paper (370 x 540mm), from Views in the Neilgherry and Koondah Ranges... London, 1847 (final plate trimmed and mounted). Not in Abbey. Exhibited: Bearers' Godown at the Avalanche, India Observed, no.193.
Both Barron's and Peacocke's prints 'reflect the same romantic escape from the plains' (Archer). The final lithograph shows a halting place on the journey up to Ootacamund in the Neilgherry Hills - a group is shown carrying on by palanquin. (6)
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