Tomb of Sterne's Eliza, Culpee
1830
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1830
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Tomb of Sterne's Eliza, Culpee is a 1830 by Robert Captain Smith, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Captain Robert Smith drew this landscape during his travels in India. It’s part of his sixty-five-pencil “Pictorial Journal” from 1828-33. The title points to Eliza Draper, a woman who once met writer Laurence Sterne in London. Smith served with Britain’s 44th Regiment and retired to Ireland in 1833. The drawings mix personal notes with sketches of rivers, tombs, and cities. Want more like this? Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing depicts the tomb associated with Eliza Draper, referenced in Laurence Sterne’s writings, located at Culpee (modern Kulpi) along the Hooghly River south of Kolkata. Part of Captain Robert Smith’s *Pictorial Journal of Travels in Hindustan* (1828–1833), the work includes 65 pencil illustrations recording his journeys on the Ganges and visits to cities such as Delhi and Agra. The tomb is identified in a caption beneath the image, noting its connection to Sterne’s literary references despite Draper’s actual burial in Bristol. The folio was later donated to the collection by W. M.…
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Robert Captain Smith (1792–1882) was an artist, born in Dublin.
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