Watercolour, over graphite, heightened with white Signed lower left Circa 1880 50.5 x 35 cm. (19 3/4 x 13 3/4 in) The present work, and the other five accompanying watercolours, are all by the English artist, and East India Company officer, Julius Middleton Boyd (1837-1919). Boyd was stationed in India during the middle of the 19th century, and the present watercolour and other five were most likely executed in the 1880s. The six watercolours all relate to preliminary sketches that Boyd would have executed on the spot, and which were later bound together, before being gifted to the British Library by the artist's daughter (shelfmark no. WD3407). In the album of sketches, there are a total of 36 drawings, illustrating landscapes and monuments from Bombay and Western India, Rajasthan and Central India. The present watercolours would appear to be larger fully worked elaborations on the sketches in the album, with each work having a direct companion, or source, in the album. The present watercolour relates to f.14 in the British Library album. We have only been able to find one previous record for a comparable work by Boyd, which was sold in Sotheby's New York, 'India & Southeast Asian Works of Art', 19th September 2008, lot 252, which sold for 46,875 USD (incl. premium).
Watercolour, over graphite, heightened with white Signed lower left Circa 1880 50.5 x 35 cm. (19 3/4 x 13 3/4 in) The present work, and the other five accompanying watercolours, are all by the English artist, and East India Company officer, Julius Middleton Boyd (1837-1919). Boyd was stationed in India during the middle of the 19th century, and the present watercolour and other five were most likely executed in the 1880s. The six watercolours all relate to preliminary sketches that Boyd would have executed on the spot, and which were later bound together, before being gifted to the British Library by the artist's daughter (shelfmark no. WD3407). In the album of sketches, there are a total of 36 drawings, illustrating landscapes and monuments from Bombay and Western India, Rajasthan and Central India. The present watercolours would appear to be larger fully worked elaborations on the sketches in the album, with each work having a direct companion, or source, in the album. The present watercolour relates to f.14 in the British Library album. We have only been able to find one previous record for a comparable work by Boyd, which was sold in Sotheby's New York, 'India & Southeast Asian Works of Art', 19th September 2008, lot 252, which sold for 46,875 USD (incl. premium).
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