ID 433035
Lot 49 | The Hon. Emily Eden (1797-1869)
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
The Voyage to India, 1835-36 - an album including fourteen sketches taken on board the "Jupiter", with scenery and figure studies taken in Funchal, Madeira (3), Rio de Janeiro (5), Cape Town (3), and India (1), and miscellaneous pencil sketches
several titled, indistinct ownership inscription on the front and back pastedowns 'Edmund T. Drummond / Lyaston(?). / Woodford Green.'
pencil and watercolour on paper
the sheets 61/4 x 9in. (15.8 x 22.8cm.)
The subjects include: The town of Funchal; An Indian girl; The bridge of the Jupiter; William Godolphin Osborne reading; 'Heaving the lead'; 'Captain Grey at his usual occupation'; Cape Malays at Cape Town; 'Cape Town December 35'; 'Aqueduct Rio'; 'Children Botanical Garden Rio'; 'Lady & Her Slave at Rio'; '... Funchal. Daughter of the Governor'; and 'Nun at the Convent in Madeira Octr 1835'.
| Applied technique: | Pencil |
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| Genre: | Marine art |
| Applied technique: | Pencil |
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| Genre: | Marine art |
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