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[ALBUM -- BOTANICAL]. Flowers from Kamptee. Album of 21 watercolors of Wild Flowers of India. Ca. 1861.
4o (335 x 275 mm). The watercolors 335 x 250 mm or smaller. Pencil, watercolor and bodycolor on paper, mounted on card, designations in ink on verso of mounts (some light staining). Contemporary purple cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt and blind (upper cover and spine faded, some light wear to spine and edges).
21 watercolors of wild flowers of India including: Bauhinia - Mountain Ebony; Bombax Ceiba, Silk Cotton Tree; Morning Glory and the Morris Flower; Red Water Lilly; Butea Superba and many others. Kamthi (previously spelled Kamptee) founded in 1821, is a city and a municipal council in Nagpur district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
4o (335 x 275 mm). The watercolors 335 x 250 mm or smaller. Pencil, watercolor and bodycolor on paper, mounted on card, designations in ink on verso of mounts (some light staining). Contemporary purple cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt and blind (upper cover and spine faded, some light wear to spine and edges).
21 watercolors of wild flowers of India including: Bauhinia - Mountain Ebony; Bombax Ceiba, Silk Cotton Tree; Morning Glory and the Morris Flower; Red Water Lilly; Butea Superba and many others. Kamthi (previously spelled Kamptee) founded in 1821, is a city and a municipal council in Nagpur district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.