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 4 Sep 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Prints & Drawings by Frank Brangwyn, with some other phases of his art.
By Walter Shaw Sparrow
Published by John Lane, London - 1919


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 4 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
The Rajah's Birthday
By Sir Frank Brangwyn RA RWS PRBA HRSA, 1867-1956.
Oil on canvas
Source: Sparrow, Frank Brangwyn and His Work

Commentary by Walter Shaw Sparrow

In his "Rajah's Birthday," where his impression of Indian sunlight at midday is not only radiant but quite near to the sp... Read More
 1 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
Morning Exodus, Jodhpur
By Ernest Stephen Lumsden

Oil on canvas, 54.5 x 66.5 cm

Collection: Newport Museum and Art Gallery Read More
 1 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
Pilgrims nearing the Sangam
By Ernest Stephen Lumsden

Date painted: 1927
Oil on board, 50.9 x 60.8 cm

Collection: Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture Read More
 1 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
Shiva’s Bull (Benares) - 1919
By Ernest Stephen Lumsden

One of the group of plates loosely referred to as E.S.Lumsden’s ‘Third Indian and Ladak set’, Shiva’s Bull shows a scene on the banks of the River Ganges, at Benares. This image was derived from the huge mass of material which E.S.Lumsde... Read More
 1 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
The Black Boat, No.1
By Ernest Stephen Lumsden
1919
Original etching
Signed and numbered in ink

Issued in E.S.Lumsden’s ‘Third Indian Set’, The Black Boat, No.1 is typical of the scenes upon the river front which the artist considered to display the essential spirit of Benares. E.S.Lum... Read More
 1 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
Benares, India
By Ernest Stephen Lumsden

Date painted: 1927
Oil on canvas on board, 23 x 32 cm

Collection: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums Read More
 1 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
Ernest Stephen Lumsden was a Scot by descent and adoption, though not by birth, and he made Edinburgh his home town, teaching at Edinburgh College of Art from 1908 until 1912. Long before he began his extensive travels to India and beyond, E.S.Lumsden had established himself as one of the rising ... Read More
 1 Aug 2013 New Books
View of Maula Ali near Hyderabad - 1799

This is plate 3 from 'Hindoostan Scenery consisting of Twelve Select Views in India' by Francis Jukes (1746-1812) and Thomas Anburey (1759-1840) of the Corps of Engineers in Bengal.

Anburey served with the Bengal Army as a surveyor in 1792 and 1793, t... Read More
 1 Aug 2013 Rare Paintings
North-east view of Hyderabad - 1799

This is plate 1 from 'Hindoostan Scenery consisting of Twelve Select Views in India' by Francis Jukes (1746-1812) and Thomas Anburey (1759-1840) of the Corps of Engineers, Bengal.

While serving with the Bengal Army between 1792 and 1793, Anburey helped su... Read More
 11 Jul 2013 Rare Paintings
View of Chittagong c.1825

Watercolour by Thomas Prinsep (1800-1830), of a view of Chittagong, in Bangladesh, dated c.1825. This image, from an album compiled with his brother William, shows the washing green, where cloths were laid out to dry in the sun, and is inscribed in the original sketch... Read More
 7 Jul 2013 Rare Paintings
Temple and pillar at Vijayanagara - 1800

Water-colour from the MacKenzie Collection of a temple and pillar at Vijayanagara, dated December 1800. Inscribed on front in ink: 'Ancient Pagoda at Bisnagar. 1800'; in pencil: 'Decr. 1800.'

Vijayanagara, the City of Victory founded in 1336, was the... Read More
 3 Jul 2013 Rare Paintings
"At Tirupetty (Tirupati), about fifty miles from Madras, there is an old temple much frequented by pilgrims, and very interesting to the student of Indian architecture. Pursuing the path up the hill, we go through three towers curiously carved. The hill is two thousand five hundred feet high, and... Read More
 30 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
The lake at Naini Tal - 9 October 1886

Water-colour painting of the lake at Naini Tal in Uttarakhand by Charles J. Cramer-Roberts (1834-1895), 9 October 1886. Inscribed on front in ink: 'Naini Tal. Oct 9/86. C.J.C.R.'

Naini Tal is situated 6,400 feet above sea level in the Kumaon Hills of t... Read More
 29 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Praying cylinders at Soonum. Woman filling a container with water, Himalaya - 1865

By William Simpson

Watercolour on paper

Simpson, William (1823-1899). Painter and lithographer. Simpson was apprenticed to a lithographer in Glasgow and in 1851 came to London where he made views of the Gr... Read More
 28 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Mountain scene in the Himalayas by George Landseer (British); pastel and watercolour on paper; India; 1860.

Mountain scene in the Himalayas; pastel and watercolour on paper. Depicts an encampment in a mountain pass. A fort can be seen on a distant peak. People wearing turbans and with horses, ... Read More
 26 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Himalayan Snowfield - 1925

By Cyril Walter Bion
Painter, born at Simla, India. Educated in England he studied Naval architecture at Durham University. He taught at Hong Kong University and in Northern Ireland.

Oil on canvas, 71.5 x 91.8 cm

Collection: National Museums Northern Ireland Read More
 26 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Sunrise among the Pines near Fagoo in the Himalayas - 1878
By Marianne North

Oil on board, 35.1 x 24.9 cm

Collection: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Read More
 26 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Bheemtal, Kumaon, India - July 30 1878
By Marianne North

Oil on paper, 29.4 x 51 cm

Collection: British Library Read More
 26 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Scene in the Himalayas
By William Daniell

Oil on canvas, 81.2 x 100.2 cm

Collection: Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council Read More
 26 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Flowers of a Dogwood and an Indigo from the Himalayas -1870
By Marianne North
Oil on board, 29.6 x 34.5 cm
Collection: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Marianne North: The flower huntress

Eschewing marriage – 'a terrible experiment’ – Marianne North travelled the four corners of the world to paint fl... Read More