Four studies of Mexican Indians: 'Arrieros'; 'Indios de la Sierra al S E de Mexico'; 'Indios Carbueros y la muradore de la Vicindad de Mexico'; and 'Gente de Sierra Lahonte entre Pahanlba y Misaubla'

細節

Attributed to Frederick Catherwood (1799-1854)
Four studies of Mexican Indians: 'Arrieros'; 'Indios de la Sierra al S E de Mexico'; 'Indios Carbueros y la muradore de la Vicindad de Mexico'; and 'Gente de Sierra Lahonte entre Pahanlba y Misaubla'
all with inscriptions as titled
watercolour on paper
11½ x 15 7/8in. (29.2 x 40.4cm.)
11 x 15in. (27.9 x 40.4cm.)
10 7/8 x 14 7/8in. (27.6 x 37.8cm.)
9¾ x 13in. (24.8 x 33.1cm.) (4)

來源

John Davies, F.R.I.B.A. and thence by descent to the present owner.

注意事項

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拍場告示

The artist should read Karl (Carlos) Nebel (1805-1855).

The watercolours are the models for four lithographs in Nebel's Voyage pittoresque et archeologique dans la partie la plus interessante du Mexique, Paris, 1836.

We are grateful to Dr Renate Loeschner for the above information.

拍品專文

The present four watercolours were included in the portfolio of Catherwood watercolours which descended from Catherwood's friend John Davies to the present owner, and, while these four sheets have always been presumed to be Catherwood ('The sketches of the Mexican natives in costume which you and I have are quite different from his normal architectural water colours, but as they come from the same portfolio which bears his name, I can only presume they are his' (private comminication from Davies's great grandson, 1 Dec. 1960), their subjects and Spanish inscriptions suggest they may have been acquired in Mexico by Catherwood from a local costumbrista artist.