Drawing of Colgong Rocks in India
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Object number2024.00014.04
TitleDrawing of Colgong Rocks in India
Creator Edwin Landseer Grundy (artist)
DescriptionA pencil drawing titled 'Colgong Rocks with one of the India funeral steamers with flat in tow lashed alongside', drawn by Edwin Landseer Grundy, undated but assumed to be sometime in the 1860s when Grundy spent time in India.
The drawing shows the rocks at Kahalgaon in the state of Bihar in India. They are a group of rocky islands in the middle of the Ganges river. In the foreground is a small sailing vessel (square sail on one mast, two paddles used over the stern to steer)and to the left a small paddle steamer with a flat barge alongside. In the background there are some reed beds or grassy riverbanks visible to the left, and on the right a riverbank with trees and shrubbery, as well as several buildings.
The document was removed from a scrapbook which was compiled by Edwin Landseer Grundy and contained many of his own drawings and sketches. Grundy was an apprentice and junior officer on board the SS Great Britain as well as the Royal Charter in the 1850s. The document is fixed to a page from a scrapbook, with glue in the top two corners fixing the document onto the page.
Production placeIndia
Production date 1860 - 1870
Object namepencil drawing
Object categoryvisual art
Materialpaper
Techniqueprinted, drawn, hand-written
Dimensions
- height: 174 mm
width: 254 mm
including mount height: 232 mm
including mount width: 284 mm