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INDIA-- WARHAM, Thomas. Manuscript diary and sketchbook, Various places including Delhi, Meerut and Agra, ca. 1811-1813.
35 leaves including 21 pages of manuscript and 24 ink and watercolor drawings, 175 x 235mm, bound in soft leather boards with remnants of a brass clasp still present (binding loose, edge wear to boards and pages).
An unusual and remarkable journal kept by an English architect resident in India replete with twenty four vivid watercolor renderings of Indian and British monuments as well as theatrical scenery for the English theater in Marat. The first part of Warham's journal describes various architectural features in India and is complemented by a series of fourteen finely-rendered watercolor and ink renderings including a "Distant View of Buxar Fort," "Pagoda of Shewalla," "Statue of a Horse in Red Stone - near Secundra (Agra)," among others. An additional series of ten watercolors is preceded by a title page: "Sketches of Different Scenes Painted at large in distemper, for . . . the Meratt theatre, by Tho Warham - 1812 - 1813 - Managers & c ." The journal also includes a cross-section of "The great Gun at the Fort Gaut at Agra." Little is known about the author, who, according to an accompanying biographical note, arrived in India in 1784 and was recorded as living in Muradabad from 1805 to 1811 and then from the latter year until 1817 in Merrut.
[With:] Three letters, 1918-1935 discussing Warham's journal, and a page of biographical notes.
35 leaves including 21 pages of manuscript and 24 ink and watercolor drawings, 175 x 235mm, bound in soft leather boards with remnants of a brass clasp still present (binding loose, edge wear to boards and pages).
An unusual and remarkable journal kept by an English architect resident in India replete with twenty four vivid watercolor renderings of Indian and British monuments as well as theatrical scenery for the English theater in Marat. The first part of Warham's journal describes various architectural features in India and is complemented by a series of fourteen finely-rendered watercolor and ink renderings including a "Distant View of Buxar Fort," "Pagoda of Shewalla," "Statue of a Horse in Red Stone - near Secundra (Agra)," among others. An additional series of ten watercolors is preceded by a title page: "Sketches of Different Scenes Painted at large in distemper, for . . . the Meratt theatre, by Tho Warham - 1812 - 1813 - Managers & c ." The journal also includes a cross-section of "The great Gun at the Fort Gaut at Agra." Little is known about the author, who, according to an accompanying biographical note, arrived in India in 1784 and was recorded as living in Muradabad from 1805 to 1811 and then from the latter year until 1817 in Merrut.
[With:] Three letters, 1918-1935 discussing Warham's journal, and a page of biographical notes.