William Fraser’s Assembly of Village Elders with his Munshi and Diwan, by a Master Artist working for William Fraser, from The Fraser Album, India, Delhi or Haryana, circa 1816

Commissioned by William Fraser, Delhi, circa 1816

William Fraser (1784-1835) and James Fraser (1783-1856)

By descent in the Fraser Family in Scotland, 1820-1980

Sotheby’s, London, Fine Oriental Manuscripts, Miniatures and Lacquer, 7 July 1980, lot 4

S.C. Welch, India, Art and Culture 1300-1900, New York, 1985, no.49, pp.95-96

M. Archer and T. Falk, India Revealed: The art and adventures of James and William Fraser, 1801-35, London, 1989, no.5, p.15

W. Dalrymple and Y. Sharma (eds.), Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857, New Haven and London, 2012, no.41, pp.120-1

M. Fraser, Selected Works from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection of Indian and Islamic Art, London, 2015, cat.41, pp.142-5

K. Fraser, For the Love of a Highland Home, The Fraser brother’s Indian quest, St Kilda, 2016, pl.XVII

W. Dalrymple (ed.), Forgotten Masters, Indian Painting for the East India Company, London, 2019, no.104, p.167

On loan at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1983

India, Art and Culture 1300-1900, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985

Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857, Asia Society Museum, New York, 2012

Forgotten Masters, Indian Painting for the East India Company, The Wallace Collection, London, 2019-20