INDIA, 19TH CENTURY

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AN ALBUM OF PORTRAITS OF INDIAN RULERS
INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
Gouache on paper, nine panels in concertina binding, each with identification inscription in black nasta'liq script, laid down between gold, blue and pink borders on salmon-pink card margins, in stamped morocco binding together with a Qajar illustrated scroll describing mythical creatures; a Qajar incomplete illuminated wedding contract; a Qajar miniature depicting a mosque, framed and glazed and a Kashmiri illuminated frontispice, framed and glazed
Panel 11 3/8 x 7 5/8in. (28.8 x 19.3cm.) (5)

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Lot Essay

The portraits depict Thakur Sahib of Palitana (d.1885), Nawab Hamid 'Ali Khan Bahadur of Rampur (d.1930) as a child, the Maharaja of Kapurthala (possibly Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, d.1949), the Maharaja of Indore, Maharaja Pratap Singh (d.1925), Maharaja of Travancore Moolam Thirunal (d.1924) and three other unidentified rulers.

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