MED EGRON LUNDGREN I INDIEN - Ett Urval Av Konstnarens Akvareller Och Techningar 1858-1859
[WITH EGRON LUNDGREN IN INDIA - A SELECTION HIS WATERCOLOURS AND SKETCHES 1858-1859]
By KARL ASPLUND
TEXT IN SWEDISH
Published in Stockholm in 1931 in a LIMITED EDITION of 500. This is No. 17.
pp. 37 + 80 plates / also, there are 21 illustrations in the text and 1 on title page
Of the 80 plates, 8 are colour plates tipped-in with glue at top corners on one side of the page only.
Of the remaining 72 B&W plates majority are full-page and some have 2 images to a page, all printed on one side of the page only.
14 images relate to Sikhs - soldiers, horsemen, children etc. Of these 14 images 2 are colour tipped-in plates, 10 are full-page b&w and 2 are in the text.
Large fine hardback measuring 13 x 9.5 inches
The plates cover Lucknow, Cawnpore, Allahabad, Benares and Calcutta, showing people, children, women, soldiers, army on the march, elephants and camels, nautch girls, musicians, prisoners, king of Oudh and his queen, landscape of the countryside and much more
Lundgren came to India around the Mutiny of 1857 and for some time also accompanied Times correspondent W H Russell in Lucknow and elsewhere. Russell's 'My Diary in India', published in 1858, also has engravings based on Lundgren's works.
THE PAINTER'S EYE - EGRON LUNDGREN AND INDIA
By STEN NILSSON and NARAYANI GUPTA
STOCKHOLM: National museum
1992
pp. 158 with bibliography andb & w and colour illustrations
Hardback / 10.5 x 8.5 inches
This lot will be sold in "as is" condition.
There may be some minor tears/creases scratches, or holes commensurate with age that may not be visible in the images.
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