Name: WILLIAM SIMPSON (GLASGOW 1823-1899 LONDON)
Brand: Subterraneous passage to the Fort of Daulatabad, India
Price: 3200.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

WILLIAM SIMPSON (GLASGOW 1823-1899 LONDON)
Subterraneous passage to the Fort of Daulatabad, India
signed, inscribed and dated 'Subterraneous passage to the Fort of Dowlutabad. [sic] Wm Simpson, 1865.' (lower centre)
pencil and watercolour heightened with white on paper
10¹⁄₈ x 14¹⁄₈ in. (25.7 x 3.8 cm.)

Anonymous Sale; Phillips, Folkestone, 5 October 1995, lot 146.

London, Martyn Gregory, British Watercolours and Drawings 1750-1900, cat. 95, May 2016, no. 65.

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Simpson was sent to Crimea in 1851, at the outbreak of the Crimean War, by Colnaghi and Son to make sketches of the campaign as the basis for lithographs. This led to a role with the Illustrated London News as a foreign reporter for over twenty years. The Hill Fort of Daulatabad, in Maharashtra, India, has extraordinary underground tunnels carved out of the solid rock below the fort, leading to the citadel. In the 19th Century tourists could take guided tours of these, as depicted in the present drawing.