AN ALBUM OF COMPANY SCHOOL WATERCOLOURS

Lot 179
24.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 179 | AN ALBUM OF COMPANY SCHOOL WATERCOLOURS
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£ 12 000 – 18 000
AN ALBUM OF COMPANY SCHOOL WATERCOLOURS
NORTH INDIA, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Watercolour on paper, the album comprising 118 quarter- or half-page paintings pasted onto 64ff. depicting monuments in Northern India, as well as the 'trades of India' and a series of part-coloured illustrations possibly from a storybook, the architectural studies occasionally labelled in Persian, labels added with English notes on some of the paintings, with assorted ephemera enclosed, possibly inscribed to a Captain Agar, loose in contemporaneous blind-tooled leather binding
13 ¾ x 10 ¼in. (34.9 x 26cm.)




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With Krishna Moreshwar Pardhy (d.1959), Edgebaston, and his daughter Urmila Pardhy, thence by descent
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