Garden Reach
1830
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1830
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Garden Reach is a 1830 by Robert Captain Smith, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows a quiet riverside scene with a few people scattered around. On the left, two figures sit on a bench under a tree, while another person walks near a small bridge. In the background, a large building with columns stands by the water, surrounded by trees and a few ships. The artist used soft lines to create a peaceful mood, focusing on nature and calm activity. The title *Garden Reach* suggests this might be a real place, but the details are simple and relaxed. Look up cross-hatching to see how artists build shading with lines like these.
The drawing *Garden Reach* by Captain Robert Smith depicts the riverside area of Garden Reach in Calcutta. Executed in pencil, it is part of a series of 65 detached and mounted illustrations from Smith’s *Pictorial Journal of Travels in Hindustan*, documenting his voyages along the Ganges from Calcutta to Cawnpore between 1828 and 1829. The work was completed in diary form, with additional sketches from visits to cities such as Delhi, Agra, and Lucknow between 1831 and 1832. The drawing was later acquired by the museum in 1915 from W. M. Biden of Hampton-on-Thames.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Robert Captain Smith (1792–1882) was an artist, born in Dublin.
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