[Sikh Interest] A Collection of Five Original Hand-Coloured Lithographs.

Published by London & 1854., 1844

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Collection of 5 original lithographs, being: 1) Purtaub Singh, hand-coloured lithographed portrait (35.5 x 27 cm), trimmed and mounted, from the hand-coloured version of the "Portraits of The Princes and People of India," Emily Eden, London: J. Dickinson & Son, 1844. 2) Maharajah Shere Singh, hand-coloured lithographed portrait (36.5 x 24.5 cm), trimmed and mounted, from the hand-coloured version of the "Portraits of The Princes and People of India," Emily Eden, London: J. Dickinson & Son, 1844. 3) Raja Heera Singh, hand-coloured lithographed portrait (37 x 24.5 cm), trimmed and mounted, from the hand-coloured version of the "Portraits of The Princes and People of India," Emily Eden, London: J. Dickinson & Son, 1844. 4) Tomb of Runjeet, hand-coloured lithograph (25 x 31.5 cm), mounted, from "Original Sketches in The Punjaub By a Lady," London: Dickinson Brothers, 1854. 5) Lahore from The Old Race Course, hand-coloured lithograph (25 x 32.5 cm), mounted, from "Original Sketches in The Punjaub By a Lady," London: Dickinson Brothers, 1854. The Hon. Emily Eden, the seventh daughter of William Eden, first baron Auckland, accompanied her brother, George, Lord Auckland (1784-1849) to India where he served as Governor-General from 1835-1842. A highly gifted amateur artist and writer, Eden recorded her observations of life in India during this period in the form of letters and an extensive collection of sketches. On her return to England in 1842, Eden arranged to have her images printed privately as a portfolio of 24 lithographs and the Portraits was published in 1844, issued in wrappers in four parts. Most copies were issued uncoloured, except for a few beautifully hand-coloured copies, from which the first three works in this collection derive. The other two lithographs derive from a rare anonymous work entitled "Original Sketches in the Punjaub by a Lady" being a collection of drawings of Lahore and Amristar by the wife of an officer serving with his regiment in India. According to Abbey the work was "possibly privately published" (Abbey Travel, 483). In this preface to this work it is stated that: "No attempt has been made to draw pictures as they ought to be; the desire has been to convey to an English eye some notion of the bright, vivid colouring of Indian scenes".…

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Title
[Sikh Interest] A Collection of Five Original Hand-Coloured Lithographs.
Author
EDEN, Emily.
Publisher
London & 1854.
Publication year
1844
Binding
Soft cover
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