View of Mount Erskine and Pulo Ticoose Bay, Prince of Wales Island (Penang)

细节

Sun Qua (c.1830-c.1870) after William Daniell, R.A.
View of Mount Erskine and Pulo Ticoose Bay, Prince of Wales Island (Penang)
inscribed 'View of Mount Erskine and Pulo Ticoose Bay, Prince of Wales Island. Proprietor Ersqine Esq... R Smith.'
watercolour on paper
unframed
20¼ x 25¾in. (51.4 x 65.4cm.)

来源

Purchased from Clarissa Dickson-Wright for the present collection, London, 1976 (as Robert Smith).

注意事项

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拍品专文

A copy of William Daniell's aquatint, plate 9 from the set of ten Views of Prince of Wales Island (1821) after the set of ten pictures now in the Penang Museum attributed to Captain Robert Smith (1787-1873). For a similar copy of this plate from Daniell's Views attributed to Sun Qua (and on which the present attribution is based) see L.C. Keat, Penang Views 1770-1860, Singapore, 1986, p.111 and pl.64.