[Two watercolours of the Sundarbans.]
[By Hubert Cornish, unsigned.]
[n.d., 1794-5.]
Two views, pencil with watercolour. Sheets 335 x 440mm 13¼ x 17¼") & 390 x 490mm (15¼ x 19¼"). Second sheet with part J. Whatman watermark. First sheet with tear and creases; second sheet with loss lower left, mainly affecting border, tears in edges, staining and soiling. Slight faded.
Two views of British ships in a river off the Bay of Bengal, probably the Hooghly River, with the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest. Both have pencil notes on the reverse. Hubert Cornish was the brother-in-law of Sir John Shore, 1st Baron Lord Teignmouth (1751-1834), who had been appointed as Governor-General of Bengal. Cornish accompanied his sister, Charlotte, on her voyage to join her husband in India, where Cornish was appointed as Teignmouth's Aide de Camp. Little else is known about Cornish, although a typed transcript of the journal he kept of his travels in India recently sold in a London auction, Forum.
[Ref: 68729] £2,200.00
[n.d., 1794-5.]
Two views, pencil with watercolour. Sheets 335 x 440mm 13¼ x 17¼") & 390 x 490mm (15¼ x 19¼"). Second sheet with part J. Whatman watermark. First sheet with tear and creases; second sheet with loss lower left, mainly affecting border, tears in edges, staining and soiling. Slight faded.
Two views of British ships in a river off the Bay of Bengal, probably the Hooghly River, with the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest. Both have pencil notes on the reverse. Hubert Cornish was the brother-in-law of Sir John Shore, 1st Baron Lord Teignmouth (1751-1834), who had been appointed as Governor-General of Bengal. Cornish accompanied his sister, Charlotte, on her voyage to join her husband in India, where Cornish was appointed as Teignmouth's Aide de Camp. Little else is known about Cornish, although a typed transcript of the journal he kept of his travels in India recently sold in a London auction, Forum.
[Ref: 68729] £2,200.00