On the Way to Newcastle, Jamaica
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About the work
- Location
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Country: Jamaica
City: Kingston
Place: High Commission
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About the artist
Lionel Grimston Fawkes, grandson of Walter Ramsden Hawkesworth Fawkes (an MP and patron of Turner), began his military training at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. By 1883 he was Dominic Gamble’s aide-de-camp in Jamaica. In 1885 he entered Staff College, Sandhurst. He became a Colonel in the Royal Artillery and later a Justice of the Peace. In 1891 he married Lady Constance Eleanor Kennedy, daughter of a Scottish peer. He was Professor of Military Topography at the Royal Military Academy from 1895 to 1900. By 1923 he and his wife had moved to Canada, purchasing the Point Comfort Hotel on Mayne Island and changing its name to Culzean after Constance’s ancestral home, Culzean Castle. They remained at Culzean for the rest of their lives.
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Explore
- Subjects
- topography, townscape/cityscape, tree, mountain, hill, stone/rock, house
- Materials & Techniques
- paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), watercolour (as object name)
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Details
- Title
- On the Way to Newcastle, Jamaica
- Date
- c1883
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- height: 30.00 cm, width: 23.00 cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from Morton Morris, June 1979
- Provenance
- Purchased from Morton Morris, London, June 1979
- GAC number
- 14613