Live Auction 5506Travel, Science and Natural History
Attributed to Lieutenant Colonel J. Wilson (fl. c.1819)
Lot 248

Attributed to Lieutenant Colonel J. Wilson (fl. c.1819)

St. George, Grenada

Closed8 October 2014

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GBP 1,125

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Attributed to Lieutenant Colonel J. Wilson (fl. c.1819)
St. George, Grenada
inscribed 'St. George. Grenada.' in the lower margin
pencil, pen and ink and watercolour with scratching out on paper
unframed
11½ x 15¼in. (29.2 x 38.8cm.)

Boies Penrose II, Barbados Hill, Devon, Pennsylvania, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

An engraved view after Wilson published in 1819 is in the Royal Museums, Greenwich (A view of the town of St George on the Island of Grenada taken from the pasture of Belmont Estate by Lieut Col J Wilson & dedicated to his Excellency Major General Phineas Riall, Governor & Commander in Chief &c &c &c), PAI0407.