ID 992554
Lot 154 | EDEN, Emily (1797-1869)
Valeur estimée
£ 20 000 – 30 000
Portraits of the Princes & Peoples of India. London: J. Dickinson & Son, 1844.
A rare coloured copy of Eden's important work, probably one of only a handful of copies published in this form. The Hon. Emily Eden, the seventh daughter of William Eden, first baron Auckland, accompanied her brother, George, Lord Auckland (1784-1849) to India where he served as Governor-General from 1835-1842. A highly gifted amateur artist and writer, Eden recorded her observations of life in India during this period in the form of letters and an extensive collection of sketches. On her return to England in 1842, Eden arranged to have her images printed privately as a portfolio of 24 lithographs and the Portraits was published in 1844, issued in wrappers in four parts. Most copies were issued uncoloured, except for a few beautifully hand-coloured copies, of which the present work is one.
Eden's fine portraits and textual descriptions in the Portraits record the Indian rulers, and often their families, with whom Lord Auckland met during his term of office as Governor-General. The first period of their stay in India was spent in Calcutta and from October 1837 to February 1840 Lord Auckland and his entourage toured through the Upper Provinces, meeting with Indian princely subjects. Amongst those encountered and portrayed by Eden during these tours were the Maharaja Sher-Singh, King of the Punjab, the Maharaja Ranjit Singh, The Raja of Nahun, the Raja of Patiala, and the Raja Hira Singh, son of the Prime Minister of the Punjab. Fanny Parks, travelling in India between 1822 and 1845, found Eden's sketches from this period to be 'most spirited and masterly.' The richness and splendour of these Indian figures and their entourages are captured by Eden, particularly in the plates relating to the bejewelled horses from the Maharaja's stable, and the elephants, dogs, hawks and hunting leopards sent to accompany Lord Auckland by the King of Oudh. Eden did not only confine her portraits to those of Indian princes or those of high castes. The twenty-eight images also include servants attached to Government House, members of their families, together with religious devotees, Pathans, Tibetans and others. Bobins I, 237. Not in Abbey.
Folio (556 x 433mm). Lithographic title mounted on card, 27 lithographic plates by Lowes Dickinson after Eden, printed by Charles Hullmandel, title and plates finished in contemporary hand-colour, mounted on 24 card mounts in imitation of watercolours with ink borders ruled by hand in brown or gilt, with letterpress captions on paper mounted on each verso (mount to title with some surface abrasion and light browning, mount to plate number 20 with short tear to lower blank margin, occasional spotting or light soiling to about 17 plates, seven mounts retaining old mounting tape on verso). Unbound as issued in original purple morocco-backed portfolio, upper cover blocked in gilt 'Hon. E. Eden's /India' with an integral vignette illustration of a snake coiled around an egg (rebacked, flaps and ties replaced). Provenance: Christie's Arts of India sale 24 Sept. 2003, lot 70.
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