Lot Essay
Justinian Gantz of Austrian extraction, was the son of the lithographer and watercolourist John Gantz (1772-1853), draughtsman to the East India Company. Together with his brother Julius Walter he carried on his father's business, publishing a series of lithographs of Madras in 1841, eight years before the late of these two drawings.
The Fort St. George stands on the sea front of Madras and contains the Church of St. Mary, the spire of which is shown in the middle of the watercolour, the original first was founded in 1644 and remodelled on plans prepared by Bartholomew Robins in 1750. St. Mary's Church was built 1678-80 by Streynsham Master. The harbour his beyond on the right. The companion watercolour shows the Banquetting Hall of 1802, a separate building of old Government House
The Fort St. George stands on the sea front of Madras and contains the Church of St. Mary, the spire of which is shown in the middle of the watercolour, the original first was founded in 1644 and remodelled on plans prepared by Bartholomew Robins in 1750. St. Mary's Church was built 1678-80 by Streynsham Master. The harbour his beyond on the right. The companion watercolour shows the Banquetting Hall of 1802, a separate building of old Government House