Lot 1502
ANDREW NICHOLL, RHA (1804-1886)
SUSPENSION BRIDGE OVER WATERFALL AND RAPIDS IN CEYLON
Signed, watercolour with scratching out, unframed
33.5 x 49cm.
* * In 1849, Nicholl was sent by the Government to work as an art teacher in Colombo. He made friends with the Colonial Secretary there, Sir James Emerson Tennent, Bt (1804-1869, a fellow Belfast man), and was commissioned by him to produce many scenes on the island.
