A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c14.s4.6

c14.s4.6

In 1889 Mr. A. Murray succeeded with great difficulty in obtaining copies of thirteen figures in either pastel or coloured photographs, now preserved in the Colombo Museum. His meritorious work, performed when the ‘pockets’ were all but inaccessible, has been superseded by a magnificent series of facsimile copies made in oils on canvas by Mr. Perera, which also are exhibited at Colombo. These copies, which are described as reproducing with minute accuracy every detail of the originals in size, colour, and all other respects, have been carefully photographed. Some of the photographs have been reproduced in Mr. Bell’s *Reports* and Mr. Havell’s book, and a selection is now given from copies liberally supplied by the Government of Ceylon.