
Biography adapted from Wikipedia: Colesworthey Grant (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Colesworthey Grant (British, 1813–1880) has 6 public-domain artworks in the Archive Lane archive, each available as a digital download or a made-to-order print.
Colesworthey Grant was an English artist, writer and pioneer activist against cruelty to animals in India. Teaching himself art and sketching, he produced numerous portraits of many early East India Company servants of influence in Calcutta which were published in the local periodicals of the time. He later became a professor of drawing. He founded the "Calcutta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals" in 1861 after seeing the sorry conditions especially of draught animals on the streets of Calcutta.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Most of Colesworthey Grant's work on the site falls under Drawings (4), Prints (2).
By orientation: 6 portrait.
Dated work in this group ranges from 1800 to 1843.
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As well as a free preview and digital download, each of these 6 artworks can be ordered printed, rolled or framed, made to order and shipped locally from $21.99.
Sizes are listed in inches and centimetres, with up to 26 sizes available depending on the print type, from small desk pieces up to large statement pieces. A size that doesn't match this artwork's own proportions is centred and trimmed to fit, and each print type's page states exactly how much of the image that removes.
Framed Canvas and Framed Print orders are available in 8 frame colours (Black, White, Natural, Gold, Walnut, Silver, Dark Grey, Light Grey); Canvas and Rolled Canvas have no frame and no glass.