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An album of 67 watercolours including; Eighteen depicting the Indian rituals surrounding marriage and seventeen depicting the rituals of death; Thirty-two figure studies of Indian men and women in various occupations all with inscriptions on the individual pages
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Western Indian Company School, circa 1880, probably Rajasthan
An album of 67 watercolours including; Eighteen depicting the Indian rituals surrounding marriage and seventeen depicting the rituals of death; Thirty-two figure studies of Indian men and women in various occupations all with inscriptions on the individual pages
the album inscribed 'J'ai copie les legends anglaises attacheés aux/aquarelles /aa cause de leur couleur locale-anglais native' on the inside of the front cover
pencil and watercolour, eighteen with gum arabic, heightened with touches of bodycolour, one heightened with gold, seventeen watermark, fifty-three within the artist's black-lined border, sixty-seven watercolours laid down on the pages of the album
12 1/8 x 8¼in. (30.7 x 21cm.)
An album of 67 watercolours including; Eighteen depicting the Indian rituals surrounding marriage and seventeen depicting the rituals of death; Thirty-two figure studies of Indian men and women in various occupations all with inscriptions on the individual pages
the album inscribed 'J'ai copie les legends anglaises attacheés aux/aquarelles /aa cause de leur couleur locale-anglais native' on the inside of the front cover
pencil and watercolour, eighteen with gum arabic, heightened with touches of bodycolour, one heightened with gold, seventeen watermark, fifty-three within the artist's black-lined border, sixty-seven watercolours laid down on the pages of the album
12 1/8 x 8¼in. (30.7 x 21cm.)
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