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206 199 Andrew Nicholl RHA (1804-1886) CLASSICAL PILLAR, ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT, circa 1846-1850 watercolour over pencil with white highlights and sgraffito signed lower left 14.50 by 20.50in. (36.8 by 52.1cm) Frame Size: 23.5 by 29in. (59.7 by 73.7cm) Exhibited: Almost certainly exhibited at the Irish exhibition of Arts and Manufacturers, Dublin, 1882, as Pompey’s Pillar, Egypt, catalogue no. 1581, lent by E. B. Roche In August 1846 Nicholl sailed to Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka) to take up a position as art master at the government school there. On the journey out he travelled across northern Egypt via Alexandria, sending a view of Mount Sinai to the RHA the following year. This work was painted either on the outwards or return journey, circa 1850. It is interesting to see the foreshadowing of his later series of views with banks of flowers in the foreground; here the vista of Alexandria is dominated by the giant monument in the foreground. €600-€800 (£520-£690 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot1 99