(A View in the Hills, Southern India)
Artist Unknown
Details
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Title
- (A View in the Hills, Southern India)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Size
- 54 x 81.5 cm
Provenance
possibly John S. Bowering, London
Topographical Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Bronzes, Sotheby's Parke Bernet & Co, London, 3 November 1976, lot 103 attributed to John Webber as A View of the Hinterland of Tahiti, illus. p. 67
unknown
Blue Boy Gallery, Melbourne c.1977
private collection, Melbourne
Exhibited
The Two Worlds of Omai, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, 1977, as A View to the Hinterland of Tahiti, attributed to John Webber, cat. 47
Further Information
This perplexing landscape painting has baffled numerous curators since it was acquired by a Melbourne collector in the mid to late 1970s, as attributed to John Webber who served as official artist on James Cook's third voyage of discovery around the Pacific (1776–80) aboard HMS Resolution.
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