Lot 126
AN INJURED VETERAN
INDIA, DELHI, CIRCA 1875
Auction: 10 June 2026 from 14:00 BST
Description
after a photograph, gouache on paper, ruled borders in gold, black, blue and red
Dimensions
Page: 28.6cm x 19.6cm
Image: 15.6cm x 11cm
Provenance
Formerly, the Stuart Cary Welch Collection (1928-2008); acquired, Sotheby's, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Part Two, Art of India, 31 May 2011, Lot 140.
Footnote
Photography came to India in the nineteenth century and the earliest known photographs are from an album of c. 1843. The Photographic Society of Bombay was founded in 1854, only a year after its counterpart in London, and photography quickly replaced painting as a way to record architectural and ethnographical subjects. Officers of the East India Company were well placed to make such recordings and in 1855 students at the East India Company's military academy at Addiscombe in England were taught the principles of photography.
For further references see :
Wild, The East India Company Trade and Conquest from 1600, London, 2000, pp. 116 and 120.