Set of 5 books by Western artists visiting India

a) Edwin Lord Weeks, From the Black Sea Through Persia and India, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1896

pp. xii, 437 + photogravure portrait of the artist [with tissue guard bearing his printed signatures in red] and 132 illustrations in the text [many full-page] based on the artist’s paintings; original butter-yellow cloth with ‘oriental’ gilt design and title on cover., top edge gilt
9.4 x 6.4 in (23.5 x 16 cm)

Illustrated by the Author. Of the 437 pages, 291 relate to INDIA; of the 132 illustrations, 90 relate to INDIA

Apart from Persia, the book mainly covers Karachi, Lahore, Punjab and Rajpootana or Rajasthan with notes on Indian Art and impressions of Anglo-Indian life.

Journal of Edwin Lord Weeks [1849-1903] the great American painter of the Orientalist school, a collection of the accounts of his various journeys undertaken in the 1880s and 1890s and brought together in this lovely volume.

b) George Eyre-Todd, The Autobiography of William Simpson, R.I. (Crimean Simpson), London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903

pp. xv, 351 with index + photogravure frontispiece of Simpson and 24 plates
9.8 x 7 in (24.5 x 17.5 cm)

A rare book, published after the death of Simpson [1823-1899]. A good part of the book relates to Simpson’s numerous visits to India beginning with the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny followed by visit with the Prince of Wales in 1875 and then the Afghan Boundary Commission. Of the 37 chapters a dozen relate to India and Afghanistan. He travelled to Bombay, Madras and Calcutta, central India, Punjab, Kashmir and the Himalayas apart from Crimea and Abyssinia.

c) E M Merrick, With a Palette in Eastern Palaces, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1899

pp. viii, 195 + photogravure frontispiece showing the artist + 6 plates, 3 of which show the royalty of Mysore, Vizianagaram and Dholepore; bound in original leaf-green illustrated cloth with gilt embossed title on cover.
7.8 x 5.4 in (19.5 x 13.5 cm)

Rare and little-known memoir by EMILY MERRICK [1842-1921], a member of the Royal Academy, who visited India in the 1890s and undertook commissions to paint portraits of the Maharajahs and some Parsis during visits to a number of princely states and other cities in India.

The first 55 pages cover the voyage from England to Bombay. The rest of the book is entirely on India. She travelled virtually all over India and there are references to the Maharajas of Coochbehar, Mysore, Vizianagaram, Jaipur Jodhpur, Nizam of Hyderabad, Dholpore, Dumraon, Patiala, Kolhapur, Bhavnagar, Rajkot, Maharajah Tagore, among others.

d) Ray Murphy, Edward Lear - Indian Journal: Watercolours and Extracts from the Diary of Edward Lear (1873-1875), London: Jarrolds, 1953

pp. 240 with 9 colour plates, 12 halftone plates and 13 line drawings; rebound in green buckram. Ex-library but title-page clean.
9 x 6.2 in (22.5 x 15.5 cm)

e) A H Hallam Murray, The High-Road of Empire: Water-colour and pen-and-ink sketches of India, London: John Murray, 1905

xxix; [1]; 453 pages; [1]. Illustrated with 47 plates in colour with captioned tissue guards and numerous in-text line drawings; publisher's ornately blind-stamped orange cloth, gilt titles and tooling to a blue cloth panel to spine, blue endpapers, top edge gilt
9.6 x 7.2 in (24 cm x 18 cm)

(Set of five)

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