In Jungle Pine, Sri Lanka
In Jungle Pine, Sri Lanka
In Jungle Pine, Sri LankaSigned lower centre A. Nicholl RHA, further inscribed and dated verso, The Jungle pine Ceylon/April 27. 1847-/The jungle pine grows to the height of 14 or 16 feet, it bears fruit exactly/similar to a pine apple, this fruit is considered by the natives to be poisonousWatercolour heightened with bodycolour and stopping out31.9 by 45.8 cm., 12 ½ by 18 in.Provenance: By descent in the family of the artistWith Spink and Son Ltd, LondonPrivate collectionThe present watercolour demonstrates the artist's wide-ranging interest in everything that he experienced during his stay in Sri Lanka, not just in the architecture and the people but also in the flora and fauna that he saw.){kind=link}
Andrew Nicholl, R.H.A. (1804-1886)
In Jungle Pine, Sri Lanka
Signed lower centre A. Nicholl RHA, further inscribed and dated verso, The Jungle pine Ceylon/April 27. 1847-/The jungle pine grows to the height of 14 or 16 feet, it bears fruit exactly/similar to a pine apple, this fruit is considered by the natives to be poisonous
Watercolour heightened with bodycolour and stopping out
31.9 by 45.8 cm., 12 ½ by 18 in.
Provenance:
By descent in the family of the artist
With Spink and Son Ltd, London
Private collection
The present watercolour demonstrates the artist's wide-ranging interest in everything that he experienced during his stay in Sri Lanka, not just in the architecture and the people but also in the flora and fauna that he saw.