Study of a tamarind tree and date palms near Sir William Yardley's house at Breach Candy, Bombay
1850
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1850
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Study of a tamarind tree and date palms near Sir William Yardley's house at Breach Candy, Bombay is a 1850 paint by William Carpenter, a British Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a tamarind tree and date palms near a house in Bombay. Green leaves fill the left side. Sunlight hits the ground in patches. You can almost feel the heat. William Carpenter painted this in 1850 while living in India. He often wore local clothes and painted the countryside. His work gives us a quiet look at life then. Check out more of Carpenter, William’s work next.
A tamarind tree and date palms are depicted near Sir William Yardley's house at Breach Candy in Bombay, with a woman carrying a vessel on her head accompanied by a small child standing nearby. Another figure appears in the background of the scene. The work was acquired from the artist in 1881 as part of a larger purchase of Carpenter’s Indian pictures.
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William Carpenter (1818–1899) was an English watercolour artist. He travelled for six or seven years in the 1850s painting scenes of India, its people and its life. The Victoria and Albert Museum bought over 280 of his…
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