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In 1850 he married Harriett Elizabeth Hughes (1828–1897), who had arrived in India earlier that year as a Christian missionary—a calling to which she was to devote her life in both India and later in the UK. Her mission was not to the people of India, but initially to the wives of the soldiers. Her meetings attracted the husbands too and she was known as 'Holy Mary'. After their return to the UK in 1875 due to ill health, she spent years—unusually for a woman—preaching in support of the Zenana Bible and Medical Missionary Society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis watercolour is one of a group of three that we have for sale, which stylistically are very similar to Henry Brabazon Urmston's work. A collection of his watercolours sold at Christie's in 1997, detailing Urmston's movements through India, and they included two views at Dalhousie. 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The distinctive landscape, with rock cave dwellings cut into a steep hillside and small turbaned soldier figures with spears, is most likely in India or possibly the Near East. It is unclear whether this is an observed view or something of a confection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the verso of the paper is an Italianate fresco-style arched composition with what appear to be figures in prayer and a putto.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe age of the paper and style of drawing indicate a date around the early years of the 19th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe drawing derives from the collection of renowned British drawings and watercolours dealer William Drummond (Covent Garden Gallery, London) and is designated OMD (Old Master Drawing) on the verso of the backing. The backing also bears the indistinct attribution 'Callcott?', which possibly refers to the artist-traveller Lady Maria Callcott.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCallcott lived in India as a young lady between 1809 and 1810, when her naval father was put in charge of the East India Company’s dockyard in Bombay. She met her first husband, Thomas Graham, a young Scottish naval officer, here and she travelled widely in India India, going as far north as Kashmir and south into Sri Lanka (then Ceylon). In 1811 the Grahams returned to England and Maria turned her notes and drawings into her first book, 'Journal of a Residence in India' published in 1812, followed in 1814 by 'Letters on India'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe went on to live in Italy and Chile, staying on in South America despite the death of her husband. 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