A Calcutta Hackney coach

The present watercolour can be compared to a slightly smaller example in the Edwin Binney Collection, published by Stuart Cary Welch in Room for Wonder, Indian Painting during the British Period 1760-1880, New York, 1978, p. 72, no. 24, illustrated.
The watercolour belonging to Mr. Binney came from an album of watercolours by Muhammad Amir commissioned by a Calcutta business man Thomas Holroyd, c. 1835-40.
For a note on the artist see lot 115.