The hot and cold springs of Sitacoon
1828
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1828
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
The hot and cold springs of Sitacoon is a 1828 by Robert Captain Smith, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows a quiet park scene with trees and a few people walking or standing around. Some are near a small stream, while others gather by a fence. In the background, there’s a building with an archway and a few more people near it. The sky is lightly sketched with soft clouds, and the whole scene has a gentle, sketchy feel. The title at the bottom says it’s about the "hot and cold springs of Sitacoon," hinting this might be a real place people visited for water. The artist used simple lines to show light and shadow without much detail. If you like this kind of scene, look up Romanticism to see how artists used nature and emotion in their work.
The drawing depicts people gathered around hot and cold springs within a landscape setting. It is one of 65 detached and mounted pencil illustrations from a travel journal kept by Captain Robert Smith between 1828 and 1833. The work documents voyages along the Ganges and visits to locations such as Cawnpore, Delhi, Agra, and Lucknow. The illustration was later acquired by the museum in 1915.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Robert Captain Smith (1792–1882) was an artist, born in Dublin.
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