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Lot 76

After Sir Thomas Anburey
View within the Northern Entrance of Gundecotta Pass, Hindustan

1 February 2017, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£400 - £600

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After Sir Thomas Anburey

View within the Northern Entrance of Gundecotta Pass, Hindustan
bears inscription and initials in pencil 'View within the Northern/Entrance of Gundecotta Pass/TA' (verso)
watercolour with traces of pencil
37.5 x 49.5cm (14 3/4 x 19 1/2in).

Footnotes

Sir Thomas Anburey of the Bengal Engineers made a series of sketches whilst surveying a route in India in 1792 and 1793. A selection of these sketches were later transformed into hand coloured aquatints by Francis Jukes and published in a bound folio entitled Hindoostan Scenery. Consisting of Twelve Select Views in India Drawn on the Spot by Thomas Anburey. The present lot is after plate 3 of the same title. The original drawing by Anburey on which the print is based is in the Yale Centre for British Art.

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