Set of 23 books and rare catalogues on British painters in India

a) Anne Buddle with Pauline Rohatgi and Iain Gordon Brown, The Tiger and the Thistle: Tipu Sultan and the Scots in India, 1760-1800, Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1999

Issued in UK to coincide with an exhibition in 1999 to mark bicentenary of the final 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 9.5 in (30 x 23.7 cm)

This 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

b) Amina Okada, L’inde Du Xixe Siecle: oyage aux Sources de l’Imaginaire [India in the 19th Century – Travel and Sources of Imagination], Agep Editeur, 1991

Text in French. 167 pages with about 200 images of oil paintings, lithographs, engravings, photographs, woodcuts etc. by French artists. Some images are double-page. Fine and very large book; original maroon cloth binding with title printed on cover in white with very fine dustjacket.
13.2 x 11.2 in (33 x 28 cm)

There have been many books about how the British looked at India since they ruled the country. This is the only comprehensive and profusely illustrated book about the French artists looked at India in the 19th Century and brings together a very large number of images never or rarely seen.

c) From Bournabat to Madurai: Early Views of Turkey, India And Other Eastern Countries, London : Kyburg Limited, 1989

Exhibition catalogue of a London Gallery of 28 June-28th July, 1989.
pp. 37
8.4 in (21 cm)

d) A Journey Through India: Pictures of India by British Artists, Spink and Sons, 1996

pp. 60 with 57 items, each reproduced in colour and described in detail and with index; softcover
10 x 8.5 in (25 x 21.2 cm)

Sale catalogue issued in UK in 1996, consisting of oil paintings and watercolours by various British artists. Paintings by Thomas and William Daniell, George Chinnery, Johann Zoffany's portrait of Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula of Oudh, William Hodges, Justinian Gantz, William Melville, William Prinsep, Edward Lear, Mortimer Menpes and many others.

e) British Artists in India, London: Hartnoll and Eyre Ltd., 1970

pp. 12 with 37 works listed with 8 illustrations; stapled blue wrappers
A London gallery sale catalogue of 1970.
8.8 x 4.4 in (22.2 x 11 cm)

f) A Nawab's Dream (Un reve de Nabab), 1999

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 from a French firm; softcover
12 x 6 in (30 x 15 cm)

The 290 kg silver bed 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 black and white photograph of the bed when it was built, a watercolour of the same, the musical contraption inside the bed and some other related pix.

g) A 1970 issue of the British magazine APOLLO devoted entirely to British art in India

77-page softcover issue with essays as listed below.
Editorial: Sahib and Guru [with 10 illustrations]
Benares Through the Eyes of British Artists by W G Archer [with 14 illustrations, 1 of them in colour]
Company Painting in South India: The Early Collections of Niccolao Manucci by Mildred Archer [with 17 illustrations]
Indian Themes in English Pottery by Michael Archer [with 14 illustrations]
Indian Architecture in England, 1780-1830 by Nicholas Cooper [with 16 illustrations]
The Ancestral Voices of Fort St. George [i.e. Madras] by Violet Powell [with 7 illustrations]
Egron Lundgren, Reporter of The Indian Mutiny by Sten Nilsson [with 10 illustrations]
Lord Curzon and The Preservation of Indian Monuments by Kenneth Rose [2 illustrations]
12.2 x 9.6 in (30.5 x 24 cm)

h) Mary Ann Steggles, Statues of The Raj, London: BACSA, 2000

pp. xiv, 225 with bibliography; softcover with more than 100 photographs
8.4 x 6 in (21 x 15 cm)

The first book on forgotten statues put up during the British Raj across India and their locations today.

i) Compiled by David Johnson, Clive of India: Collection of 10 contemporary documents printed in facsimile, London: Jonathan Cape, 1971 [Reprint of 1968 ed.]

Portfolio with loose sheets
13.5 x 9 in (33.7 x 22.5 cm)

j) John Langdon-Davies, The Indian Mutiny: A Collection of Contemporary Documents, London: Jonathan Cape, Circa 1980

8 facsimiles of documents, photographs, engravings, newspaper reports, letters contained in a portfolio; folder with loose sheets printed in facsimile
14 x 9 in (35 x 22.5 cm)

k) Midred Archer, A Journey of Hindoostan: Graphic Art of British India 1780-1860, CT Storrs: William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, 1987

pp. 71 with index to artists, coloured frontispiece + 74 black and white 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 in (27.5 x 21.2 cm)

l) The British in India, Brighton: Museum & Art Gallery, 1973

pp. 71 with 16 full-page black and white plates and bibliography; softcover
8 x 8.5 in (20 x 21.2 cm)

Catalogue of an exhibition held by Museum & Art Gallery in 1973 in Brighton with 2-page Introduction by Michael Edwardes

m) Thomas and William Prinsep in India, London: Spink and Co., 1982

16-page catalogue of an exhibition held by Spink in London in April 1982 with a 2-page essay by Dr Mildred Archer and 71 items described, 1 colour illustration cover, 1 black and white illustration on back, 8 black and white illustrations inside covers [total 10 illustrations]; stapled softcover
9.5 x 6.5 in (23.7 x 16.2 cm)

n) The Discover of Nature: Botanical drawings from Europe and Asia 1650-1850, London: Eyre and Hobhouse, 1983

pp. 45 with many colour plates
9.6 x 7.4 in (24.2 x 18.5 cm)

o) Alex M. Cain, The Cornchest for Scotland: Scots In India, Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1986

pp. 96; softcover
7.5 x 9.8 in (18.8 x 24.5 cm)

p) Giles Tillotson, Newfound Lands: The Indian landscape from Empire to Freedom, New Delhi: Delhi Art Gallery, 2021

pp. 167; hardback
9.4 x 7.8 in (23.5 x 19.5 cm)

q) F S Aijazuddin, Historical Images of Pakistan, Lahore: Ferozsons

pp. 170 with full of plates by European artists; hardback with dustjacket
12.4 x 9.2 in (31 x 23 cm)

r) The Other Side of the Verandah: Watercolours, drawings, and photographs of Anglo-Indian interiors in the British period 1800 to 1900, London: Martyn Gregory, 1981

pp. 12, catalogue of a London gallery
7.8 x 8.4 in (19.5 x 21 cm)

s) Patrick Conner, 100 Degrees in The Shade: Military and domestic life in India 1800-1860 - Watercolours by George H. and John B. Bellasis, Circa 1980s

pp. 20, paperback
8 x 8.4 in (20 x 21 cm)

t) Bengal Palladian and the Picturesque: Colonial Architecture in the Indian landscape 1780-1880, London: Eyre and Hobhouse, Circa 1980s

pp. 20, paperback
6 x 8.4 in (15 x 21 cm)

u) India and Afghanistan: Prints from stock, Autumn 1986, London: Hobhouse Ltd

pp. 19; paperback
7.2 x 8.4 in (18 x 21 cm)

v) Lucia Chimiri, Oriental Scenery: Indian scenes in engravings from the 17th to the 19th centuries, 2001

63-page catalogue of an exhibition held in Florence in 1999. The catalogue was issued in 2001. Text in English and Italian; softcover
6.8 x 9.6 in (17 x 24 cm)

w) Jane Shadel Spillman, European Glass Furnishings for Eastern Palaces, 2006

pp. 144 with bibliography and index. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white, 7 essays including the objects supplied by the firms of Baccarat, Jonas Defries, Ostler, Elias Palme and others.
10.6 x 8.8 in (26.6 x 22 cm)

Exhibition catalogue issued in America in 2006. Except a small section relating to Turkey, the book entirely covers Indian princely states [Patiala, Baroda, Gwalior, Nizam Hyderabad etc.] and kind of western glass furniture, objects, chandeliers, luxury items imported from Europe which they used.

(Set of twenty three)

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