Artwork
Banyan Tree in the Botanical Garden, Calcutta
Banyan Tree in the Botanical Garden, Calcutta is a drawing by the Romanticist artist Robert Captain Smith. It dates from 1830 and is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Smith, a former officer of the 44th Regiment, completed the unpublished manuscript in Ireland after retiring in 1833, finishing it in 1845.
A pencil drawing by Captain Robert Smith depicts a banyan tree in the Botanical Garden in Calcutta, part of a series of 65 detached and mounted illustrations from his travel journal spanning 1828 to 1833. The work includes sketches from voyages along the Ganges and visits to cities such as Cawnpore, Delhi, Agra, and Lucknow. Smith, a former officer of the 44th Regiment, completed the unpublished manuscript in Ireland after retiring in 1833, finishing it in 1845. The drawing was later acquired by the museum in 1915 from W. M. Biden of Hampton-on-Thames.
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