A herdsman leading a buffalo

Details

Delhi School, circa 1816
A herdsman leading a buffalo
pencil and watercolour, heightened with touches of bodycolour
unframed
12 x 16 1/8in. (30.5 x 41cm.)

Provenance

James Baillie Fraser and William Fraser.
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 9 December 1980.
with H.P. Kraus, New York.

Literature

M. Archer and T. Falk, India Revealed, The Art and Adventures of James and William Fraser, 1801-1835, London, New York and Sydney, 1989, p. 106, no. 88.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The present watercolour came from an album of watercolours commissioned by the Fraser brothers from Company artists in Delhi. Their discovery in 1979 together with diaries and correspondance was hailed as of 'the greatest significance for British-Indian history'. James Baillie Fraser's Indian sketches were worked up into aquatints in England and then published as View of Calcutta and its environs, and Views in the Himala Mountains.

This same subject is also in the Skinner Album, in the India Office Library, see M. Archer, Company drawings in the India Office Library, London, 1972, p. 97, no. 169 and M. Archer, Between battles. The album of Colonel James Skinner, London, 1982, no. 5.
We are grateful to Jerry Losty of the India Office Library for his help in preparing this catalogue entry.

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