Lot 350
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Taj Mahal, Agra & Delhi, a collection of watercolours, Company school, c.1839-1841
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 6 May 2015 at 12:00 BST
£7,500
Description
41 watercolours on 37 leaves (35 large images (23x19cm) and 6 small images (10.5x8.5cm)), depicting the Taj Mahal and its pietra dura work, including the mausoleum of Shah Jahan with some pictures showing details of the tomb and the mausoleum of Shah Akbar at Sikandra, along with other mausoleums in Agra and architecture in Delhi, some with J. Whatman watermark, some with date watermarks (around 1840), some with indecipherable blind-stamps, each illustration captioned neatly in ink and mounted on coloured paper