Set of 6 Portfolios and Books mostly on Company Painting
a) Midred Archer with foreword by Ebrahim Alkazi, The Marquis Wellesley Collection: Indian Artists Under British Patronage, London: Al Falak, 1982
pp. iv with 7 sepia illustrations + 10 plates printed on one side of sheet only, 1 plate pasted on cover; softcover
23 x 17 in (57.5 x 42.5 cm)
b) Midred 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
18 x 13.5 in (45 x 33.7 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
c) The Allure of India: Company School Paintings from Murshidabad and Patna 1795-1830, London: Francesca Galloway, 2017
A huge portfolio of 12 Murshidabad watercolours [1795-1810] and 9 Patna watercolours of festival and processions [1820-1830]; 1 sheet of introduction; 2 sheets of thumbnail sketches of the 21 watercolours, and 21 sheets reproducing each in large size. Printed in Italy, contained in a fold over portfolio
17.5 x 13 in (43.7 x 32.5 cm)
d) Fifty-One flowers: Botanical Watercolours from Bengal, London: Colnaghi/ Hobhouse Ltd catalogue, May 2006
96 pp; with bibliography, 10-page introduction and all 51 watercolours by Indian or Company artists reproduced full page; Cover: Stiff wrappers; Softcover
11.5 x 8.5 in (28.7 x 21.2 cm)
e) Niall Hobhouse, The Lucknow Menagerie: Natural History Drawings from The Collection Of Claude Martin [1735-1800], London: Walpole Gallery, 2001
Pro pagination [pp. 79] with a 6-Page essay by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones and 76 items, each in colour, with 26 full-page plates and 9 images in the text; stiff cards
12 x 8 in (30 x 20 cm)
f) V P Prasad, D Simonds and Margaret Mary Read Brown, Flowers of Southern and Western India: painted by Margaret Mary Read Brown (1816-1868), London: High Commission of India, 2013
pp. 99 with 81 full-page plates in colour and some half-page. Also 2 full-page portraits of the artist and 1 of her husband; hardback with dustjacket covered in mylar.
14 x 10 in (35 x 25 cm)
A large and lavish book with stunning plates. Never marketed commercially.
Brown painted her first flowers in 1839 in the Nilgiris. The majority of the flowers shown are from the Nilgiris, others from Coorg, Dharwad, Ratnagiri and Wynad.
(Set of six)
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