Lot 234
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An Album of sixty watercolors of Indian Subjects, Monuments and Sikh Princes

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10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • An Album of sixty watercolors of Indian Subjects, Monuments and Sikh Princes
  • Various pages watermarked and dated 1858
  • Pencil, pen and ink, watercolor heightened with gold on paper, covered and bound in contemporary leather with stamped foliate forms within interlocking trellis designs
  • 7 3/4 by 6 1/8 in. (19.6 by 15.5 cm.), one illustrated
This album includes 44 illustrations of various trades, occupations and castes of North India, 8 architectural drawings of monuments in North India and Amritsar, and 8 portraits of Sikh rulers of the Punjab including Ranjit Singh and his son Duleep Singh.