6 HAND COLOURED PRINTS FROM CHARLES GOLD`S "ORIENTAL DRAWINGS"

a) Charles Gold
Snake-Men with Serpents Dancing to Music [Reverse image of the print in 'Oriental Drawings']
Circa 1810
Hand-coloured engraving on paper
6.5 x 5.25 in (16.2 x 13.1 cm)

b) Charles Gold
Officers and Private of The Gun Lascar Corps, Madras Establishment
February 20, 1803
Hand-coloured engraving on paper
13 x 10.25 in (32.5 x 25.6 cm)

Publisher: W & G Nicol. Engraved by Medland. An attractive print showing three Indian sepoys in full dress, finely coloured.

c) Charles Gold
A Sepoy of Tipoo Sultaun's Regular Infantry with A Brahmin of the Tribe of Seeva Returning from Bathing [2 images in one print]
Circa 1810
Hand-coloured engraving on paper
6.5 x 5.25 in (16.2 x 13.1 cm)

d) Charles Gold
A Pandarom [Reverse image of the print in 'Oriental Drawings']
Circa 1810
Hand-coloured engraving on paper
6.5 x 5.25 in (16.2 x 13.1 cm)

e) Charles Gold
Flying Foxes and Banyan Tree
June 20, 1803
Hand-coloured engraving on paper
10.25 x 13 in (25.6 x 32.5 cm)

Publisher: W & G Nicol. Engraved by Medland.

f) Charles Gold
A Peesash: The Effects of The Land Wind
December 10, 1802
Hand-coloured engraving on paper
10.25 x 13 in (25.6 x 32.5 cm)

Publisher: W & G Nicol. Engraved by Medland.

3 prints are large hand-coloured aquatints and come from the original edition published 1806. The remaining 3 prints come from a smaller-format volume published soon after, with hand-coloured etchings, which had images copied from Gold.

All prints were issued without captions which were printed, with detailed descriptions, opposite each print in the book.

(Set of six)

NON-EXPORTABLE

This lot will be sold in "as is" condition. For further details, please refer to the images of individual lots as reference for the condition of each print.