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. ". Object Type: painting. Genre: landscape painting. Date: between circa 1877 and circa 1879. Dimensions: height: 25 cm (9.8 in) ; width: 51 cm (20 in). Medium: oil on paper. Collection: British Library. Oil painting on paper by Marianne North of Beypore
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