‘View of Jumna’, 1808. 

Oil on paper, signed and dated lower right ‘Rt Smith del 1808’, by Lieutenant Robert Smith (1787-1873), 1808.
 
Officers and men of the Bengal Army, resting and conversing by the River Jumna. The river itself is not seen, but is indicated by the presence of ships’ sails behind the walls of a fortified battery. The artist, Lieutenant (later Colonel) Robert Smith, was an officer in the Bengal Engineers who was later responsible for supervising the repair of the Jama Musjid of Delhi, the largest and most famous mosque in India.