An Artist on the March

Paintings of India, Abyssinia & Kashmir by Colonel Cornelius Francis James, Prince of Wales' Own Bombay Grenadiers 1838-1889

Text by Tony Carey  : 1989 : 48 pages, many colour illustrations
Published on behalf of M.E.Carey the artist's grand-daughter and O.M.A. Carey and J.J.P. Webster, his great grandchildren, by C.M.A. Ltd. of Guernsey, in association with the Guernsey Museum & Art Gallery.

Publication coincided with an exhibition of the artist's work, organised jointly with the National Army Museum.

ISBN 1 871560 82 9

Cornelius Francis James was one of the most gifted of several soldier artists who served in India in the 19th century. He travelled extensively with his regiment and on the staff; rising to the rank of Colonel before his death at the age of 51.

Wherever military service called him, he sketched and painted the landscapes and people that he encountered. Today his watercolours offer a vivid and fascinating glimpse of a world of red coated sepoys, Indian castles, Hindu temples and distant Himalayas.

As a member of a punitive expedition to free hostages held in Abyssinia in 1868, he provides a colourful record of this swift but arduous campaign through some of the most dramatic scenery in Africa. His paintings portray the drama and difficulties endured by the soldiers and their animals.

Exhibitions of Frank James' work were staged in his lifetime, but this is the first publication of the 63 paintings reproduced here; many from the collection of the National Army Museum, in London.

Caption (rear cover)

Contents:

Frank James - The Soldier
Cornelius Frank James - The Artist
The Abyssinian Rescue
India - The People
India - The Places
A Kashmir Holiday in 1881
Notes on the James Family