RUDYARD (Col H.)

The Artillery Parade Ground Port Royal Jamaica with another West Indian parade ground scene by the same hand.

2 watercolours on wove paper measeuring 320 by 230mm. One signed and captioned in pencil on the boarder. West Indies, 1840.

£850.00

These are very attractive depictions of the military in Jamaica where Rudyard, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Artillery, was posted in 1839. His is an accomplished amateur hand.

Hansard 1842 “He thought it right to state to the House, on the authority of Colonel Rudyard, from whom the hon. Member quoted a report, dated November 14, 1842, ….”

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