£1,512
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 739
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
52 paintings on mica, comprising: 18 loosely inserted into a blue morocco gilt album (snake charming, funeral procession, Hindu marriage procession, tiger hunting, Rajah going to hunt, mallakhamb scene and others), 28 loose paintings (dancing girl and band, ploughing scene, market scene, school scene, rural funeral procession, religious processions, mallakhamb, birds) and 6 paintings loosely taped onto paper (man with shisha pipe, sati (suttee) scene, a scribe, a servant, a tailor, a gardener), the largest measuring 20 x 15cm and the smallest 7 x 11cm;
9 loose paintings on paper (mother and child, dancing woman, butler, man with dead birds, ayah with child, hunter, woman with basket, scribe at desk, barber)