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Lot Essay
A note on the reverse reads: Favourite ladies of the Nabob Rezoo Khan amusing themselves in a garden through which crosses a river, some fishing some, bathing, & some rowed by women in barges. I fancy the painter thought he should please me by introducting some English vessels, one of the inconsistencies that sometimes appear in Indian pictures - For it is not very likely British that it should be sailing in the Gardens of a Seraglio His Highness the Nabob appears with his Guard taking the air in his Palace greens - .
Reza Khan was appointed Naib Nazim of Bengal by Robert Clive in 1765, a position he kept until 1772 AD. He is portrayed in a painting, probably from Murshidabad circa 1770, published in Stuart Cary Welch, Milo Cleveland Beach, Gods, Thrones and Peacocks, USA, 1965, cat.42, p.85.
A comparable painting from Bengal in the Bodleian Library shows a similar concocted scene, althouh slightly less refined and probably painted a decade later, with ladies bathing, country boats fishing and budgerows flying English red ensigns (MS. Douce Or.a.2,f.1, Andrew Topsfield, Paintings from Mughal India, Oxford, 2008, cat.76, p.160).
The inscriptions on the reverse are written in the same hand as the inscriptions on lot 101.
Reza Khan was appointed Naib Nazim of Bengal by Robert Clive in 1765, a position he kept until 1772 AD. He is portrayed in a painting, probably from Murshidabad circa 1770, published in Stuart Cary Welch, Milo Cleveland Beach, Gods, Thrones and Peacocks, USA, 1965, cat.42, p.85.
A comparable painting from Bengal in the Bodleian Library shows a similar concocted scene, althouh slightly less refined and probably painted a decade later, with ladies bathing, country boats fishing and budgerows flying English red ensigns (MS. Douce Or.a.2,f.1, Andrew Topsfield, Paintings from Mughal India, Oxford, 2008, cat.76, p.160).
The inscriptions on the reverse are written in the same hand as the inscriptions on lot 101.