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'Beypore, India'
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Oil painting on paper by Marianne North of
Beypore, dated 1878-1879. Marianne North visited India in 1877-79
and completed over 200 paintings whilst there.In her autobiography,
'Recollections of a happy life' of 1892, she wrote, "At Beypore I
found a large room over the station, a hundred yards from the sea,
with a garden between me and it...I enjoyed being at Beypur close
to the sea...I could walk on the rocks and sands, watching the
shrimps, crabs...I made a long sketch of the river and distant
mountains, with endless cocoa-nuts in the middle distance,
ferry-boats, and picturesque people. It was very pleasant sitting
on the clean sand, but it was hot."
Title: 'Beypore, India'
Description:
Oil painting on paper by Marianne North of
Beypore, dated 1878-1879.
Marianne North visited India in 1877-79
and completed over 200 paintings whilst there.
In her autobiography,
'Recollections of a happy life' of 1892, she wrote, "At Beypore I
found a large room over the station, a hundred yards from the sea,
with a garden between me and it.
I enjoyed being at Beypur close
to the sea.
I could walk on the rocks and sands, watching the
shrimps, crabs.
I made a long sketch of the river and distant
mountains, with endless cocoa-nuts in the middle distance,
ferry-boats, and picturesque people.
It was very pleasant sitting
on the clean sand, but it was hot.
".
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