Live Auction 7200Christie's Interiors
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Hyde Colebrooke (1762-1808)
Lot 472

Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Hyde Colebrooke (1762-1808)

View in the interior part of Port Cornwallis, Andaman Islands

Closed23 October 2012

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GBP 750

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Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Hyde Colebrooke (1762-1808)
View in the interior part of Port Cornwallis, Andaman Islands
signed and dated 'R H Colebrooke delt/1790' (lower right)
pencil, pen and grey ink and watercolour
13½ x 18 in. (34.3 x 45.7 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 July 1986, lot 114.

Specialist note

A military surveyor and draughtsman, Colebrooke accompanied Alexander Kyd, Surveyor-General, to survey the Andaman and Nicobar Islands between November 1789 - April 1790. A similar view, also dated 1790, is in the collection of the India Office Library, M. Archer, British Drawings in the India Office Library, 1969, vol. I. p. 143.