CLASSICAL PILLAR, ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT, circa 1846-1850

Signature: signed lower left Medium: watercolour over pencil with white highlights and sgraffito Size: 14 x 20in. (36.83 x 52.07cm) Framed Size: 23.50 x 29in. (59.69 x 73.66cm) Condition: There is discolouration of the sheet and further points and regions of discolouration most notably in the upper left of the sheet. Otherwise very good condition. Exhibited: Almost certainly exhibited at the Irish exhibition of Arts and Manufacturers, Dublin, 1882, as Pompey's Pillar, Egypt, catalogue no. 1581, lent by E. B. Roche In August 1846 Nicholl sailed to Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka) to take up a position as art master at the government school there. On the journey out he travelled across northern Egypt via Alexandria, sending a view of Mount Sinai to the RHA the foll...

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