Description
- This watercolor is from an album of original drawings and watercolors done by an English lady by the name of Catherine Street, about whom further information is unavailable. The album also includes military scenes, a view of the battle of Waterloo, and pictures of Britain and Europe, painted in the early years of the 19th century and published in 1821. This picture shows a plantation house shaded by coconut palms with more trees rising behind and steeply rising hills. The watercolor is part of the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection at the Brown University Library, the foremost American collection devoted to the history and iconography of soldiers and soldiering, and one of the world’s largest collections devoted to the study of military and naval uniforms.
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- Arts & recreation > Architecture > Residential & related buildings
- Arts & recreation > Painting > Historical, geographic & persons treatment
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- Ink and watercolor drawing ; 30 centimeters