Company School

Company School
19th/20th Century
A Collection of Thirty-two (32) Botanical Studies
Twenty-nine (29) sheets signed A. Descubes; many extensively inscribed with notes on the various subjects
Watercolor and graphite pencil on paper
Each approximately 17 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches (45.1 x 27.3 cm)

Provenance:
Collection of the Imperial Institute Library of Bombai, Mumbai
C. Duncan Connelly Fine Art, Atlanta

The signature A. Descubes is probably that of Alexandre Descubes (circa 1850-1920), a Mauritian cartographer and botanical artist apparently of French colonial descent, who worked in British India.

C Estate of Pauline Ireland, Birmingham, Alabama