Richmond Hill, Grenada. Original signed pencil and sepia wash drawing, titled in pencil 'Richmond Hill Grenada July 1850'

by Walford Thomas Bellairs

$1,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

An important view from the harbour of St. George's, Grenada, looking inland with the peak of Richmond Hill framed against the skyline According to William R. O'Byrne's A Naval Biographical Dictionary London: 1849 Vol. 1, p.70, Bellairs joined the Navy in 1809 and made Lieutenant in 1819. He evidently travelled widely: the National Maritime Museum in London hold two of his West Indian drawings, the National Library of Australia a watercolour of a scene in Panama, and a

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