Lot 260: Blümlis Alp from Kandersteg

Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, R.A. (1835-1924)
Blümlis Alp from Kandersteg
inscribed and dated 'Blümlis Alp from Kandersteg Aug. 29. 1903' (lower right) and further inscribed 'C-W-R-Brady-Esq an unworthy souvenir with comps and kind regards T.G.J.- Kandersteg. Aug. 30. 1903' on the reverse
pencil and watercolor on paper
unframed
6 5/8 x 9½in. (16.8 x 24.2cm.)

A distinguished architect and architectural historian, Jackson was also an inveterate traveller. His Memories of Travel , was published in 1923, his diary of a journey to Dalmatia, Bosnia, and Herzegovina is held in the V&A, a travel journal is in the Bodleian, and Recollections of Sir Thomas Graham Jackson The Life and Travels of a Victorian Architect (ed. D.H. Jackson) was published in 1950. He was a talented draughtsman, elected to the Royal Academy in 1896 (A.R.A. 1892), and his own sketches illustrated several of his architectural histories.