Marianne North was one of the earliest women artists to travel across India. During her travels (1877-79) she created more than 200 paintings. A non-conformist in multiple senses, she travelled to touristy places like Jaipur, Agra, Delhi and Shimla, but also went off the beaten path to traverse the isolated villages of Kumaon in Uttarakhand and captured the natural beauty of these hills.
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Marianne North in Mussoorie
According to the British Library, where this painting belongs, Marianne North visited Mussoorie in early May 1878. Her diary entry on 8th May reads:
Masuri is a long scattered place, covering an uneven ridge for about three miles, looking over the wide Dun valley on one side, and into the rolling sea of mountains on the other. The ever-changing lights and shadows over the great mountains were a continual wonder for me to watch…One day we went up the the hills and saw a tribe of black-faced monkeys, with long tails and grey whiskers, jumping from tree to tree and shaking the very trunks with their sudden springs. Those hills were full of wild nooks, great overhanging rocks, and scraggy twisted oaks…The climate was delicious between the showers, which were as frequent as in England.
– Marianne North’s diary, British Library
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