Anon. Indian Landscape with Resting Spearman
An original early 19th-century watercolour painting Indian Landscape with Resting Spearman.
A beautiful picturesque composition showing an Indian river and bridge, with a soldier armed with spear and shield resting beside a thatched hut. The composition has a feeling of deliberate balance and calm, combining Eastern and Western elements; the central landscape motif could almost be British, whilst the robed speared and thatched hut site the scene very much in India.
The painting is unsigned, but is executed with significant skill. The hand is no doubt a British artist working in India in the early 19th century; other works from the same collection included pictures by Frederick Charles Maisey (1825–1892) and Captain James Manson, an assistant on the geological survey of the Garhwal region of the Himalayas.
On wove paper.
Dimensions: Height: 13cm (5.12") Width: 17.5cm (6.89")
Presented: Unframed.
Medium: Watercolour
Age: Early 19th-century
Signed: No.
Inscribed: --
Dated: --
Condition: There are small areas of repair to the paper at the upper right corner and towards the right edge. Slight toning to the upper left corner. Small soft crease to the lower left corner. Please see photos for detail. There are historic adhesive marks and/or paper remnants to the periphery verso, from previous mounting.
Stock number: JT-375
