A JOURNEY TO HINDOOSTAN - Graphic Art of British India 1780-1860
Essay by MILDRED ARCHER
Catalogue and exhibition by Thomas P. Bruhn
Prints from the Max Allen & Peter Allen Collection
Catalogue of an exhibition of a private collection ofBritish India-related prints, aquatints and engravings held in the USA in 1987
pp. 71 with index to artists
Coloured frontispiece + 74 b&w illustrations, mostly 2 to a page, some full page
28 artists are represented from William Hodges to William Simpson
13-page biographical notes on artists
9-page essay by Mildred Archer
Large Softcover / 11 x 8.5 inches
LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS IN THE VICTORIA MEMORIAL CHIEFLY BY EUROPEAN ARTISTS
Introduction and short biographies by GILES EYRE
Catalogue and text by CHARLES GREIG
CALCUTTA: Victoria Memorial
1991
pp. 70 [including covers] and profusely illustrated in colour and b&w
Softcover / 10.5 x 8.5 inches
Front hinge separated
A JOURNEY THROUGH INDIA ???Pictures of India by British Artists
58-page catalogue issued by Spink, London, in 1996
57 items, each illustrated in colour and described
Softcover/ size 10 x 8.5 inches
THE BRITISH IN INDIA
Catalogue of an exhibition held by Museum & Art Gallery in Brighton in 1973
2-page Introduction by MICHAEL EDWARDES
pp. 71 with 16 full-page b&w plates and bibliography
softcover/ 8 x 8.5 inches
Ex-library with some scrawls at the end of Introduction
INDIA OBSERVED -INDIA AS VIEWED BY BRITISH ARTISTS 1760-1860
By Mildred Archer and Ronald Lightbown
London: Victoria and Albert Museum
1982
pp. 160 with 203 entries
Softcover / 9.5 x 6 inches
ADAPTING THE EYE - An Archive of the British in India, 1770-1830
36-page catalogue of an exhibition held in USA in 2011 relating to British art in India and Indian art for British
Essay, bibliography
10 full-page colour illustrations including covers
13 colour illustrations in the text
Stapled softcover/ 8.5 x 6.5 inches
THOMAS AND WILLIAM PRINSEP IN INDIA
16-page catalogue of an exhibition held in London in April 1982 by Spink
2-page essay by Dr Mildred Archer
71 items described
1 colour illustration cover, 1 b&w illustration on back, 8 b&w illustrations inside covers [total 10 illustrations]
Stapled softcover / 9.5 x 6.5 inches
ARTHUR WILLIAM DEVIS 1762-1822
exhibition catalogue issued UK 2000
pp. 66 with 24-page essay on Devis, bibliography, index and plates
size 9 x 8.5 inches
31 plates showing works by Devis of which 15 are on INDIA.
He was in India for 11 years [November 1784 to January 1795].
See Mildred Archer's book INDIA AND BRITISH PORTRAITURE , pp. 234-269.
He made Indian portraits, painted craftsmen, portraits of Sir William Jones, and Tipu Sultan-related scenes
AN INDIAN ENCOUNTER - Portraits for Queen Victoria
By Saloni Mathur
catalogue for a London exhibition in 2003 on Austrian painter RUDOLF SWOBODA who was sent to India by Queen Victoria expressly to paint portraits of Indians.
pp. 32 with 27 portraits in colour, notes and list of exhibits
Softcover/ 8.5 x 6 inches
Ex-Library. Title page clean
HILDA MAY GORDON(1874-1972), a colourist abroad
Her travels around the world in the 1920s, illustrated by her own paintings, and based largely upon her unpublished journals
By PATRICK CONNER
London: Martyn Gregory
No date [c. 1990s]
A 62-page gallerycatalogue covering the artist's travels in India, Kashmir, Western Tibet, Burma and elsewhere in Asia
Softcover/ size 8 x 6 inches
CHARLES D'OYLY'S CALCUTTA, EARLY 19th CENTURY
Oblong quarto [12 x 9 inches] in stiff cards.
38 pages with 28 full-page colour reproductions on glazed art paper [including the one on cover] from VIEWS OF CALCUTTA AND ITS ENVIRONS [1848]
And 3 b&w full-page lithographs from BEHAR LITHOGRAPHIC SCRAP BOOK [1829]
All by Sir Charles D'Oyly [1781-1845],a civil servant with East India Company and a pupil of Chinnery.
The lovely book also has a portrait of Sir Charles D'Oyly and a 4-page essay titled VIEWS OF CALCUTTA AND ITS ENVIRONS: CHARLES D'OYLY, EUROPEAN ENGRAVER OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY HINDOOSTAN, which puts the artist in the context of his times.
Printed and published in Calcutta in 2011 to coincide with an exhibition, this is a 2014 reprint.
OIL PAINTINGS BY SIR CHARLES D'OYLY, 7TH BARONET 1781-1845
By MAURICE SHELLIM
An extremely rare and virtually unknown catalogue issued by a London gallery in 1989
pp. 32
Very few copies were printed.
This is Shellim's signed presentation copy to British scholar Patricia Kattenhorn
There is a 1-page foreword byGiles Eyre, 2-page introduction by Maurice Shellim with chronology and a list of 26 oils by D'Oyly at the end.
Two COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS on front and back of cover and 26 b&w illustrations inside, most of them full-page.
Lovely softcover/ 10.5x 8.5 inches
AN ARTIST ON THE MARCH - Paintings of India, Abyssinia and Kashmir by COLONEL CORNELIUS FRANCIS JAMES, Prince of Wales' Own Bombay Grenadiers, 1838-1889
A RARE, lovely catalogue issued in UK in 1989, consisting of oil paintings and watercolours.
This catalogue was published by Col. James's great grandchildren from Guernsey, Channel Islands
pp. 48
19 portraits of Indians [servants, ascetics, etc.], 13 watercolours of Elephanta, Karli, Satara, Pushkar, Ajmer, Bolan Pass etc., 8 watercolours of a Kashmir made during holiday in 1881 and 23 paintings of Abyssinia.
Softcover / 8 x 8.5 inches
JOHN GRIFFITHS (1837-1918) - The Rediscovery of an important artist working in Victorian Bombay
12-page catalogueof an exhibition held in London in May-June 1980
2 colour illustrations on cover, 4 b&w illustrations inside
1-page essay by William Gaunt
2-page essay by G. E. [Giles Eyre]
26 items, biographical sources
Stapled softcover / 10 x 7.5 inches
DRAWINGS FROM SOUTH INDIA by Bevis Sale
Full-page caricatures by American visitor to India
Published June 1972 in an edition of 150 copies of which this is No. 122 [according to back cover]
MR.WILLIAM SIMPSON OF THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS - PIONEER WAR ARTIST 1823-1899
Catalogue issued in UK in 1987
pp. 16 [including covers] / Large size 12 x 9 inches
Essay by Paul Theroux
Covers Simpson's entire career but the focus is largely on India and only some partsare on Sebastapol, Abyssinia etc.
Of the 10 colour illustrations, 5 are on India including the cover. There are 12 b&w illustrations [2 on India] in text including a photograph of Simpson. 83 works are described andthere are notes and a bibliography.
WILLIAM SIMPSON'S AFGHANISTAN - Travels of a Special Artist and Antiquarian During the Second Afghan War, 1878-1879
Edited by Peter Harrington
Published by Helion and Co., Solihull, UK/ 2016
pp. 289
Heavily illustrated, based on Simpson's diary
Hardcover / 10 x 7 inches
ANGLO-INDIA - Fine and decorative arts made for the British in India 1800-1870
Kentshire Galleries catalogue issued in 1985
85 items described
pp. 22
softcover / 10 x 7 inches
VANISHING INDIA - The true India which has escaped occidental influence is depicted by HUBERT STOWITTS in a series of ethnographic paintings executed in fresco secco, from life
16-page essay in a complete issue of U.S. journal NATURAL HISTORY forSeptember-October 1931. The essay is by H. D. [Hawthorne Daniel, Editor of the journal]
The essay has 28 b&w reproductions of Stowitts' paintings + there is a colour painting on the journal's cover. Total 29 images.
Size 10 x 7 inches
ANAWAB'S DREAM / Un reve de Nabab
Text in English and French
A rare 12-page exhibition catalogue issued in France in 1999, to exhibit a silver bed ordered by the Nawab of Bahawalpur [now in Pakistan] in 1882 froma French firm. The 290 kg silverbed had four life-size nude women - Parisian. Flemish, Greek and Italian - which could move their hands holding fly whisks and eyes thanks to a mechanical contraption under the bed and had a music box that played for30 minutes.
The catalogue gives complete details about the history of the bed, how it was ordered, how built and what happened to it.
It also carries the image of the Nawab, a b&w photograph of the bed when it was built, a watercolour of thesame, the musical contraption inside the bed and some other related pix.
Softcover / 12 x 6 inches
ALBERT BESNARD AUX INDES
Catalogue of a 2004 exhibition held at a Paris gallery
French artist Albert Besnard [1849-1934] visited Indiain 1910-11
Text in French
30-page stapled softcover / 10.5 x 8 inches
THE TIGER AND THE THISTLE - Tipu Sultan and the Scots in India, 1760-1800
By ANNE BUDDLE with Pauline Rohatgi and Iain Gordon Brown
Issued in UK to coincide withan exhibition in 1999 to mark bicentenary of the finall battle of Seringapatam.
148 exhibits listed and most illustrated in colour
The memorabilia includes mostly Paintings and Prints and a few Arms, Busts, Ivory objects, textiles, jewellery etc
Fine large softcover/ 12 x 9.5inches
This lovely catalogue also has 5 scholarly essays:
THE TIGER AND THE THISTLE
FROM PENCIL TO PANORAMA - TIPU IN PICTORIAL PERSPECTIVE
THE SCOTS IN INDIA
MYTHS, MELODRAMA AND THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
GRIFFINS, NABOBS AND A SEASONING OF CURRY POWDER - WALTER SCOTT AND THE INDIAN THEME IN LIFE AND LITERATURE
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