A Calcutta hackney coach

Shaikh Mohammad Amir was a resident of Karraya, who went to Calcutta circa 1830 to seek employment as an artist. He was so successful that in order to meet all his commissions he set up an atelier where talented artists helped him with his work.
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.