Set of 17 catalogues on individual Western artists in India
a) Maurice Shellim, Oil Paintings by Sir Charles D’oyly, 7th Baronet 1781-184b, London: Spink, 1989
There is a 1-page foreword by Giles Eyre, 2-page introduction by Maurice Shellim with chronology and a list of 26 oils by D'Oyly at the end; two colour illustrations on front and back of cover and 26 blacka nd white illustrations inside, most of them full-page; softcover
10.5x 8.5 in (26.2 x 21.2 cm)
b) Nanak Ganguly; Jayanta Sengupta, Charles D'oyly's Calcutta: Early Nineteenth Century, Kolkata : Victoria Memorial Hall, 2014
38 pages with 28 full-page colour reproductions on glazed art paper [including the one on cover] from Views of Calcutta and its Environs [1848] and 3 black and white full-page lithographs from Behar Lithographic Scrap Book [1829]. All by Sir Charles D’Oyly [1781-1845], a civil servant with East India Company and a pupil of Chinnery; soft bound
9.2 x 12.2 in (23 x 30.5 cm)
The lovely book also has a portrait of Sir Charles D’Oyly and a 4-page essay titled Views of Calcutta and its Environs: Charles D’oyly, European Engraver of the Nineteenth Century Hindoostan, which puts the artist in the context of his times.
Printed and published in Calcutta to coincide with an exhibition.
The colour and sparkle of the printed versions is much superior to the scans.
The full-page views in colour are titled:
East Gate, Government House [Cover]
Government House
View near the Circular Road
Garden Reach
Custom House Wharf
Town And Port of Calcutta
Banyan Tree
Church Entrance to The Dhurromtolla
Mosque at Boranypore
Procession of the Churruck Pooja
Office of the Sudder Board of Revenue from Kyd Stree
Central View of Calcutta from The Entrance to Watergate of The Fort William
View in Clive Street
View in the Village of Sheebpore
Calcutta From the Old Course
St Paul’s Cathedral
Menagerie at Barrackpore
Entrance To Barrackpore Park
View in the Serampore Road
The Bishop’s College
The Mahomeddan College
Suspension Bridge at Alipore Over Tolly’s Nullah
View of Part of Chowringhee
Statue of The Marquis of Hastings in Taank Squre
Hindoo Mutt in The Chitpore Bazar
Esplanade
Hindoo Temple Near the Strand Road
Chowringhee From No. Xi Esplanade
THE 3 black and white Lithos from Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrapbook are:
On the River Hooghly
View in Bengal
View in the Vicinity 0f Barrackpore
plus there as a Sepia Portrait of Sir Charles D’oyly by George Chinnery
c) Patrick Conner, The Flamboyant Mr Chinnery, Bangkok: River Books, 2011
pp. 88 and full of plates; paperback
11.2 x 9.8 in (28 x 24.5 cm)
Exhibition catalogue of the George Chinnery exhibition at Asia House, London (and possibly touring thereafter). Chinnery was the art master of Sir Charles D’Oyly and numerous other British India civil servants. He lived the second half of his life in China. This book covers his career both in Calcutta and China.
d) George Chinnery, An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings of Landscapes and Scenes of Life in India by George Chinnery (1774-1852), London: Martyn Greogory Gallery, 1982
pp. 28 including covers; 72 items in the catalogue with 32 black and white illustrations and 1 coloured double spread showing a group of palanquin bearers; stapled softcover
8.6 x 5.6 in (21.5 x 14 cm)
A London gallery’s exhibition cum sale catalogue of April 1982.
e) William Simpson; Simon Peers, Mr. William Simpson of The Illustrated London News: Pioneer War Artist 1823-1899, London: Fine Art Society, 1987
pp. 16 [including covers]; of the 10 colour illustrations, 5 are on India including the cover. There are 12 black and white illustrations [2 on India] in text including a photograph of Simpson. 83 works are described and there are notes and a bibliography.
12 x 9 in (30 x 22.5 cm)
Catalogue issued in UK in 1987. Essay by Paul Theroux it covers Simpson's entire career but the focus is largely on India and only some partsare on Sebastapol, Abyssinia etc.
f) Ulrich W Hiesinger, Edwin Lord Weeks: Visions of India, New York: Vance Jordan Fine Art, 2002
pp. 111 with 39 colour and 48 black and white plates; softcover
11.2 x 9.2 in (28 x 23 cm)
This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Edwin Lord Weeks: Visions of India," held at Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York, from October 31 through December 12, 2002. Edwin Lord Weeks was born in Boston, America but eventually chose to live in Paris, where his Orientalist paintings were received to acclaim.
g) Geoff Quilley & John Bonehill, William Hodges 1744-1797: The Art of Exploration, New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 2004
212 pp.; 62 black and white figures; 78 black and white and color plates; hardbound
11.4 x 9.8 in (28.5 x 24.5 cm)
The book William Hodges 1744-1797: the Art of Exploration is the catalogue to the exhibition held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (July-November 2004), the Yale Center for British Art (January-April 2005) and Auckland City Art Gallery (May-August 2005).
h) John Griffiths, John Griffiths (1837-1918): The Rediscovery of an Important Artist Working in Victorian Bombay, Eyre & Hobhouse, 1980
2 colour illustrations on cover, 4 black and white illustrations inside; stapled softcover
10 x 7.5 in (25 x 18.7 cm)
12-page catalogue of an exhibition held in London in May-June 1980.
i) Giles Tillotson, Robert Smith (1787-1873): Paintings of the Mosque at the Qutb Minar, Delhi, London: Indar Pasricha Fine Arts, Circa 1980s
[10] p. : illustrations, some colour; stiff cards
7.6 x 10.4 in (19 x 26 cm)
j) Dorthea Hysing, Governor General Peter Anker [1744-1832] Painter and Collector Memories of India: 20 Years in Trankebar, Oslo: University Museum of Cultural Heritage, 2002
pp. 100; hardback
8.6 x 10.6 in (21.5 x 26.5 cm)
Rare catalogue with a large number of full-page paintings of India by a Tranquebar Governor. 2002 exhibition catalogue/ Text in English and Norwegian. The exhibition presented The Peter Anker-collection, a collection of artefacts and paintings from governor of Tranquebar Peter Anker`s stay in Tranquebar (formerly Danish colony of Trankebar/Tranquebar, now a town in Tamil Nadu, India) from 1786 to 1808. Many of the paintings and maps are made by himself. The Peter Anker-collection was a gift from Carl Johan Anker in 1878 to what was then Etnografisk Musem, now Kulturhistorisk museum, Oslo.
k) Saloni Mathur, An Indian Encounter: Portraits for Queen Victoria, London: National Gallery Company, 2003
pp. 32 with 27 portraits in colour, notes and list of exhibits; softcover
8.5 x 6 in (21.2 x 15 cm)
Catalogue for a London exhibition in 2003 on Austrian painter RUDOLF SWOBODA who was sent to India by Queen Victoria expressly to paint portraits of Indians.
l) George Francklin Atkinson, The Campaign in India [1857-58], Unicorn Publishing Group, 2018
11.5 x 8.25 in (28.7 x 20.6 cm)
Originally published in 1858 as a set of 26 tinted lithographs on the Indian Mutiny of 1857, many full-page, others two to a page.
This is a modern reprint in large format of the complete set of plates in tinted shades as originals together with the text for each plate as issued in the original publication.
There is a 16-page introduction [with notes and bibliography] by Simon Riches giving a detailed biography of Atkinson, about whom little is known and who, in addition to this book also published the famous CURRY AND RICE ON FORTY PLATES [on the British social life in India in the 1850s]
m) Patrick Conner, Hilda May Gordon (1874-1972): A colourist abroad, London: Martyn Gregory, Circa 1990s
A 62-page gallery catalogue covering the artist's travels in India, Kashmir, Western Tibet, Burma and elsewhere in Asia. Her travels around the world in the 1920s, illustrated by her own paintings, and based largely upon her unpublished journals; softcover
8 x 6 in (20 x 15 cm)
n) Tony Carey and Cornelius Francis James, An artist on the march Paintings of India, Abyssinia and Kashmir by colonel Cornelius Francis James, Prince of Wales' own Bombay Grenadiers, 1838-1889, St. Peter Port: CMA Ltd. in association with the Guernsey Museum and Art Gallery, 1989
48 pages; illustrations in colour; illustrated softcover
8 x 8.4 in (20 x 21 cm)
A RARE, lovely catalogue issued in UK in 1989, consisting of oil paintings and watercolours by various British artists. This catalogue was published by Col. James's great grandchildren from Guernsey, Channel Islands. The illustrations include 19 portraits of Indians [servants, ascetics, etc.], 13 watercolours of Elephanta, Karli, Satara, Pushkar, Ajmer, Bolan Pass etc., 8 watercolours of a Kashmir made during holiday in 1881 and 23 paintings of Abyssinia.
o) Hugh Casson, Indian Sketchbook, London: The Workshop, 1979
A large concertina replete with sketches by President of the Royal Academy. The books folds into a booklet measuring 5 x 4 in (12.5 x 10 cm)
p) Vanishing India: The true India which has escaped occidental influence is depicted by HUBERT STOWITTS in a series of ethnographic paintings executed in fresco secco, from life,
16-page essay in a complete issue of U.S. journal NATURAL HISTORY for September-October 1931. The essay is by H. D. [Hawthorne Daniel, Editor of the journal]. The essay has 28 black and white reproductions of Stowitts’ paintings + there is a colour painting on the journal’s cover. Total 29 images.
10.2 x 7 in (25.5 x 17.5 cm)
q) Ancient Crafts of India Painted by Hubert Stowitts,
11-page essay by D. W. Last in a complete September 1932 issue of London art journal ‘The Studio’ with 25 black and white illustrations and 1 full-page colour plate PLUS The issue also has a 4-page article titled ‘Sarada Charan Ukil: A Painter of the Bengal School’ by W.H.L. with 5 black and white illustrations and 1 full-page colour plate. A disbound copy
11.6 x 8.2 in (29 x 20.5 cm)
(Set of seventeen)
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