£600 - £800
A FINE AND RARE 19TH CENTURY TOPOGRAPHICAL WATERCOLOUR PAINTING ON PAPER DEPICTING A VIEW OF BOMBAY/INDIA STREET SCENE WITH INDIAN GENTLEMAN STANDING BY THE CROSS ROADS
The gentleman standing at the cross roads beneath a lamp post in discussion with others opposite him. This is a rare insight into cosmopolitan Bombay/Mumbai, with beautiful buildings by a main street where gents in fine dress go about their everyday business. The artist and crew/officer member of the survey ship 'Hydra' visited the city when the British ship docked at Bombay, after the sounding survey from Aden to India in January 1869. Also another watercolour painting in sepia of Indian domestic animals such as deer, goat, donkey, Bombay Bull, dog to verso.
Taken from the album of works durign the trips while he was serving on the ship 'Hydra'.
The album that contained this work is signed by the crew/artist :
'R.W Arrad, H.M.S Hydra'. Photo of this signature attached on the listing here.
Royal Navy, Launched 1838, Decommissioned 1870.
36.5cm x 24cm
53cm x 42cm
Private UK Collection.
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