Artist
James Atkinson
James Atkinson is a Romanticism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
James Atkinson was a British army surgeon who sketched the landscapes he saw on the way to Afghanistan in 1839. He traveled with British troops, but instead of battles he recorded crumbling forts, dusty roads, and the everyday life of locals. See the Bolan Pass—his watercolor shows a narrow gap between dry hills, soldiers tiny beside a camel train. His work belongs in Gallery Tiles because it’s a rare look at a war zone seen from the sidelines, not the front lines.
Works by James Atkinson
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.