Memoir of Ozias Humphry, his journey to India

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

HU/1/23

Title

Memoir of Ozias Humphry, his journey to India

Date

[c.1800]

Level

Item

Extent & medium

2 pieces, one pasted to the other

Content Description

Asserts that he first went to India at the suggestion of Sir Robert Strange; he discovered from Sir John Macpherson he was the only miniature painter in India so decided to return to that medium; intimations of his troubles in Lucknow; his return to Europe.