Homme de l`état civil allant à ses affaires - A Civilian going out

1832

Original hand-coloured lithograph on paper

10 x 15.75 in (25.5 x 40 cm)

Plate 23 from the book Twenty-four Plates Illustrative of Hindoo and European Manners in Bengal: Drawn on the stone by A. Colin from sketches by Mrs Belnos

The present lot is a lithographic plate by the French painter Alexandre-Marie Colin based on drawings by Sophie Charlotte Belnos, an amateur artist who became a professional lithographer later. Belnos was the wife of French miniature artist Jean-Jacques Belnos, who is credited with introducing lithographic printing in India in 1822. She had set up a studio in Calcutta in 1847, and many of her illustrations depict the daily life and customs of Indians, many of which were depicted in the present lot and The Sundhya, 1851.

This work will be shipped unframed

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