Lot 159: Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ramus Forrest (1750-1827)

Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ramus Forrest (1750-1827)
Village and pagoda below Patna Azimabad, on the Ganges
pencil and watercolour on paper
unframed
7½ x 11in. (19 x 28cm.)

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Forrest describes the scene: 'A few miles below Patna we passed a very prettily situated village, with its ghaut of the red stone, and its native Hindoos performing their ablutions in the sacred stream of the Ganges'