A BRITISH OFFICER HOLDING A HANDKERCHIEF

PUNJAB PLAINS, INDIA, CIRCA 1845

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A BRITISH OFFICER HOLDING A HANDKERCHIEF
PUNJAB PLAINS, INDIA, CIRCA 1845
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the young officer in uniform sits on an European chair, one leg crossed over the other, in one hand he holds a white handkerchief, beneath him a floral carpet, laid down between floral borders and red rules on pink card, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 6¾ x 4¾in. (17 x 11.8cm.); folio 8 5/8 x 6½in. (22 x 16.5cm.)

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Lot Essay

Sikh portraits of Europeans are published in Sue Stronge (ed.), The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms, London 1999, no.18, pp.24-25 and no.207, p.183). Others can be found in F. S. Aijazuddin, Pahari Paintings & Sikh Portraits in the Lahore Museum, 1977, pp. 110-111, nos. 82(ii), 83, 84 and 85.

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