Lot 62 · Travel & Exploration
'View in the Island of Ceylon'; 'Hermitage at Kurrungalle in Ceylon'pair of chromolithographs after Copley Fielding and William Westall, from R.M. Grindlay's "Scenery, Costumes and Architecture, Chiefly on the Western Side of India", [c.1890]; together with 5 tinted lithographed views by Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Waldemar von Preussen (7)
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- Estimate
- £800–£1,200 hammer ≈ $914–$1,371
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Bonhams — Travel & Exploration, London, Knightsbridge · 20 September 2022
- Record ID
- TB-2026-569742
- Record
- first seen 21 Jul 2026 · updated 21 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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Robert Melville, 'View in the Island of Ceylon'; 'Hermitage at Kurrungalle in Ceylon'pair of chromolithographs after Copley Fielding and William Westall, from R.M. Grindlay's "Scenery, Costumes and Architecture, Chiefly on the Western Side of India", [c.1890]; together with 5 tinted lithographed views by Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Waldemar von Preussen (7). Bonhams, 20 Sep 2022, lot 62. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-569742.
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Robert Melville, 'View in the Island of Ceylon'; 'Hermitage at Kurrungalle in Ceylon'pair of chromolithographs after Copley Fielding and William Westall, from R.M. Grindlay's "Scenery, Costumes and Architecture, Chiefly on the Western Side of India", [c.1890]; together with 5 tinted lithographed views by Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Waldemar von Preussen (7). Bonhams, 20 Sep 2022, lot 62. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-569742.
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