Srinagar (Primary Title)
Third Indian and Ladaki Set (Set Title)
Ernest Stephen Lumsden, English, 1883–1948 (Artist)
Ernest Stephen Lumsden, English, 1883–1948 (Printer)
This picturesque plate shows a stretch of riverbank situated far from Lumsden’s customary Ganges: the cold Jhelum River, which carves a path through Kashmir’s capital, Srinagar. More intimately scaled than his Benares views, the composition is nonetheless familiar. Buildings cling to the river’s high-walled banks; boats set out into the water; and the distant shoreline is described in fainter, less deeply etched lines. Rising above the wooden houses is the tall spire of one of Srinagar’s many mosques, probably the Shah Hamdan Masjid. If lacking in some of their earlier spontaneity, Lumsden’s carefully rendered lines remain exquisite.
ed 55
Signed in ink "Lumsden imp" at bottom center along plate line; also 40 55 in ink along plate line.
Following information inscribed in graphite by unknown hand(s) on recto: P-642, F.7486, Srinigar, S163-4 and VC-48
Following information inscribed in graphite by unknown hand(s) on verso: 80-OWX, APB 18602 (?)
Gift of Frank Raysor
Light and Line: E. S. Lumsden's Visions of India, VMFA South Asian Galleries, April 11, 2016 - April 4, 2017
Copley, John. “The Later Etchings of E. S. Lumsden”, The Print Collector’s Quarterly, July 1936. Includes a chronological list, 1905-1935, compiled by E. S. Lumsden.
©artist or artist’s estate
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