BOOKS ON EUROPEAN ARTISTS IN INDIA (SET OF 5)
a)
G P Jacomb Hood, With Brush and Pencil, London: John Murray, 1925
351 pages, profusely illustrated with black and white plates, Original binding
22.5 x 15 cm
Author's Presentation Copy
b)
Gerasimov, Indian Sketches, Moscow: Soviet Artists Publishing House, 1956
About 100 pages, profusely illustrated with coloured plates, Card covers
29.4 x 22.8 cm
c)
Introduction and Notes by Mildred Archer, Between battles: The album of Colonel James Skinner, London: Al Falak, 1982
8-page essay and notes with 8 sepia illustrations; 10 watercolours by Delhi artists, each reproduced on a thick sheet printed on one side only and loosely inserted. The stapled text and loose plates contained in a folder as issued, card covers
45.7 x 34.2 cm
The 10 colour prints are titled:
Skinner's 'Yellow Boys'
Tent Orderlies
Recruits To Skinner's Horse
Mewati Recruits
Recruits On Skinner's Farm
Gurkha Irregulars
Diwan Babu Ram And His Adopted Son
Munshi Keshav Rai And Shambunath Munshi
Maulvi Salamat Allah And Fazl Beg
Sayyid Mirza Azim Beg And His Staff
17.6 x 13 inches
d)
Alka Pandey, Pageants of the Raj: The Work Force, New Delhi: Flag Foundation of India, 2012
136 Pages, Card Covers
33 x 22.8 cm
e)
Joachim Bautze, Indian and Western Paintings 1780-1910, Virginia: Art Services International, 1998
378 pages, profusely illustrated with coloured and black and white plates, Original card covers
30.4 x 22.8 cm