TOWNSCAPE AFTER A WESTERN ENGRAVING: ENGLISH GENTLEMEN WONDERING THE MAIN STREET OF MATHURA, A TEMPLE IN THE DISTANCE
INDIA, RAJASTHAN, JAIPUR, CIRCA 1780
£21,420
Auction: Indian Paintings from the Collection of William & Mildred Archer | Lots 84 to 152 | 12 June at 10am
Description
watercolour on paper, depicting a street of large houses, perhaps in Mathura, leading to a temple, Europeans in eighteenth-century costume holding long staffs walk in the street, half of which is in a deep shadow, some ride on horseback, a washerman carries his bundle, and a red palanquin is borne along, mounted, glazed and framed
Dimensions
Folio: 20cm x 23.6cm (7 7/8in x 9 2/8in).
Provenance
Acquired before 1948.
Footnote
Exhibited:
Circulated by the Smithsonian Institute, USA, in 1963-1964, and exhibited in Ohio, Indianapolis, Richmond, New Hampshire and Ottawa.
Loan to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, 1994, no. 24.
Literature:
W. G. Archer, Indian Miniatures from the Collection of Mildred and William Archer, Exhibition Catalogue, Washington, 1963, no. 22 (not illustrated).
Note:
See previous lot for detailed note.