Kot Kangrar

Details

Lt. Colonel Alexander Jack (1805-1857)
Kot Kangrar
pencil and watercolour, unframed
16 x 10¾ in. (40.6 x 27.3 cm.)

Provenance

with Spencers Fine Art Auctioneers, Bridlington, June 1971, where purchased for the present collection.

Exhibited

India Observed, no. 151.

Engraved

Lt. Colonel Alexander Jack, Six Views of Kot Kangra, 1847, pl. 3.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This is the original drawing for plate 3 of Jack's Six Views of Kot Kangra (1847); a series of lithographs based on those sketches made by Jack during the Kangra campaign, in which the artist, then a brigadier, had fought. The operation brought one of the most beautiful regions of the Himalayas under British control. Mildred Archer's own title: 'Part of the road by which guns were taken up above the town of Mulkera', partakes in the excitement of such work - executed on the spot and whilst history was being made.

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