A pagoda at Nangumbantum, South India

Details

Justinian Gantz (1802-1862)
A pagoda at Nangumbantum, South India
signed, inscribed and dated 'Pagoda at Nangumbankum/Just. Gantz/Madras 1857' (on the reverse)
pencil, pen and ink and watercolour
7 7/8 x 10 5/8in. (20 x 27cm.)

Exhibited

London, Martyn Gregory, Trade Routes to the East, 1998, catalogue 72, no. 47.

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Lot Essay

Justinian Gantz, the eldest son of John Gantz, is described in the East India Register as a 'Miniature Painter'. Initially he helped his father with the family owned lithographic press in Popham's Broadway, Madras. After the first Burma War of 1824-1826 he went to Burma as a Company draftsman. Both father and son also practised as architects.

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