The Bocas = the entrance to the Gulf of Paria, Pelican; The Silk Cotton Tree, (a portrait) 2 the Banana.- Grenada; Suburban Cottage Architecture, Island of Grenada, and three other sketches

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Captain Henry Butler (fl. c.1835-1850)
The Bocas = the entrance to the Gulf of Paria, Pelican; The Silk Cotton Tree, (a portrait) 2 the Banana.- Grenada; Suburban Cottage Architecture, Island of Grenada, and three other sketches
the first three signed with initials, titled and dated 'H.B. 1842' (two) and 'H.B. des/April 1842'
pen and ink, watercolour and coloured chalks heightened with white and scratching out on paper
unframed
11 x 14¾in. (28 x 37.5cm.) and smaller (6)

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拍品專文

The Bocas, a series of small teeth like rocky islets are situated in the Bocas Del Dragon (Dragon's Mouth), a channel approximately 12 miles wide which separates Trinidad from the mainland of South America.

Butler was an Irish officer in the 27th, Inniskilling, Regiment who served in South Africa 1835-1839. His sketches made on the Eastern Frontier (in the MuseumAfrica, Johannesburg) were published by Ackermann in 1841 (SA sketches: illustrative of the Wild Life of the Hunter on the Frontier of the CC [see lot 73]). He returned to England in late 1839 and transferred to the 59th, 2nd Nottinghamshire, Regiment as a captain in 1841 with whom he appears, from the evidence of the present sketches (which include the same pen and ink vignettes that feature in his Cape work), to have served in Trinidad and Grenada.