HOME, Robert (1752-1834)

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Lot 141 | HOME, Robert (1752-1834)
HOME, Robert (1752-1834)

[A description of Seringapatam]. London: R. Bowyer, March-April 1796.

A very rare set of 6 separately published large folio format views of Seringapatam which are similar in scale to the aquatints published by Thomas and William Daniell in their magnum opus: Oriental Scenery (1795-1807). Reduced versions of these views had been published by Robert Bowyer in 1794 in Home’s Select views in Mysore, the country of Tippoo Sultan in which the present folio plates (numbered I-VI) appear as plates 26, 24, 23, 22, 27 and 28. Four pages of text (not present here) were published in 1796 to accompany the six plates. The original grey wash drawings by Robert Home for plates I and IV are preserved in the National Galleries of Scotland, and the V&A respectively. ‘Home left for India, where he had connections. Leaving his children with relatives, he departed without permission from the East India Company, reaching Madras in January 1791. There he met the artists John Smart and William Hickey and found work painting theatrical scenery. Having sought and secured permission to accompany the grand army to Bangalore during the Third Anglo-Mysore War, Home reached the troops on 5 March. He remained with them until early April 1792, sketching captured forts, officers, and the local countryside’ (ODNB). Bobins I, 256; Godrej & Rohatgi, Scenic Splendours: India through the printed image p. 114 and 156. Not in Abbey, Franklin, Hardie, Prideaux or Tooley.



Large oblong folio (492 x 625mm). 6 aquatint plates coloured by a contemporary hand by Joseph C. Stadler after Home, titled and numbered I-VI, titles within wash borders (no text, occasional tears, those on plates III and V extending into image, some repaired with tape on the reverse, plate V laid down, plate VI restored); housed in a modern brown cloth portfolio with cloth ties (very lightly rubbed).





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