Lot 135: Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming (1837-1924)

View of Benares from Scindia's sunken Ghat signed, inscribed and dated'Benares from/Scindia's sunken Ghat/Nov. 69. C.F.G.C/C F.Gordon Cumming' (lower right) pencil, watercolour and bodycolour heightened with white and gum arabic 191/4 x 283/4 in. (48.9 x 73 cm.) NOTES In Benares Constance was the guest of Major Hanmer and the Sergisons. The magnificent Scindia Ghat was originally begun in 1830 but was built on such a huge a scale that the foundations sank into the river and it was never completed For further information on the artist see note following lot 133.