A standing Indian girl, with details of ornaments; and A Maratha

Details

Thomas Daniell, R.A. (1749-1840) and William Daniell, R.A. (1769-1837)
A standing Indian girl, with details of ornaments; and A Maratha
the first inscribed with colour notes; the second inscribed 'A Maharatta' (upper right) and further inscribed with colour notes
pencil, unframed
9½ x 6¾ in. (24.1 x 17.1 cm.); 8 7/8 x 8 1/8 in. (22.5 x 20.6 cm.) (2)

Provenance

Anon. sale; Sotheby's, London, 9 May 1962, lots 53 & 52 respectively, where purchased for the present collection.

Literature

M. Archer, 'India Revealed: Sketches by the Daniells', Apollo, LXXVI, November 1962, pp. 689-92, figs 4 and 1 respectively, illustrated.

Exhibited

India Observed, nos. 33 and 35 respectively.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The girl is from southern India. The seated man is a 'Maratha' from Mararashtra - the renowned 'great country' surrounding the Deccan plateau which forms southern India's heartland. A watercolour copy of this second drawing is in an album of 945 sketches, compiled by Robert Home, now in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Victoria & Albert Museum. It has been suggested that it was Thomas Daniell who copied Home's original drawing rather than vica versa.

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